ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,509, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Light Tree Ventures USA Holding Inc (Miami).

"Lighting panel and a system for controlling the lighting panel" was invented by Kim Laurens Markwat (Miami), Alain Dijkstra (Amstelveen, Netherlands), Michael Kasbergen (Schoonhoven, Netherlands) and Tomislav Jacob Hooij (Den Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a lighting panel and a system and a method to control a plurality of lighting panels in a network. The lighting panel comprises one or more light source and a control unit that allows a user to set a Group ID, and one or more control ...