US Patent Issued to DRAGERWERK on Oct. 20 for "Illumination device and illumination process with automatic shading compensation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,358, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DRAGERWERK AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Illumination device and illumination process with automatic shading compensation" was invented by Hanno Kretschmann (Lubeck, Germany), Georg Spielberger (Lubeck, Germany) and Peter Tanler (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device (100) and an illumination process are capable of illuminating a surface. A control unit (10) captures an illuminance specification and controls the light sources (a.1, b.1, c.1) of the illumination device in such a way that the maximum illuminance achieved on the surface is equal to the illuminan...