# Tohru Wakabayashi — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Tohru Wakabayashi has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [Using Cordless Phones to Send Voice Commands to Smart Home Devices](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/RE48232/video-doorbell) — granted 2020
  A method for letting a cordless phone handset send voice commands to smart home appliances over the same signal path used for regular phone calls.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/tohru-wakabayashi

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