US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Feb. 17 for "Activity- based setup of a remote controlling device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,464, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Activity- based setup of a remote controlling device" was invented by Jeffrey Kohanek (Westminster, Calif.) and Ramzi Ammari (Newport Coast, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlling device having an activity mode corresponding to a controllable activity in which activation of a command key within a logical group of command keys of the controlling device causes a transmission of command data to control one or more functional operations of an intended target appliance. For a controllable activity the controlling device has a memory in wh...