ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,649, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Koninklijke Phillips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Light output system and design method" was invented by Bart Andre Salters (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Roelant Boudewijn Hietbrink (Utrecht, Netherlands), Eduard Matheus Johannes Niessen (Ittervoort, Netherlands) and Peter Martens (Hedel, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a light output system for delivering light to a region of interest, for providing at least a minimum light intensity to all of the region of interest. The system has more light sources of a particular kind than are needed to reach the minimum lig...