ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,548, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LEDVANCE GmbH (Garching bei Munchen, Germany).

"Method and system for designing human-centric lighting" was invented by Heng Li (Shenzhen, China) and Shaokun Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing human-centric lighting (HCL) for illuminating a space is provided. The method includes: providing use-related information to a floor plan of the space; performing a search in a database of historical lighting solutions based on the floor plan to find a lighting solution matching the space; extracting a layout method from the lighting solution matching the space; pe...