US Patent Issued on Aug. 25 for "Lighting effect generation and control" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,661, issued on Aug. 25.

"Lighting effect generation and control" was invented by John McIntosh (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a lighting effect generated by a plurality of participating devices, the plurality of participating devices each having a first side with a controllable light emission module and a second side having a participant input apparatus for a user of the device, the lighting effect being formed by a combination of light emissions from the light emission module of the devices. The method includes determining control of the light emission module of the devices such tha...