US Patent Issued to Lumileds Singapore on April 14 for "Authentication and secure communication using LED array" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,558, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lumileds Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Authentication and secure communication using LED array" was invented by Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Nicola Bettina Pfeffer (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Pieter Johannes Quintus van Voorst Vader (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an authentication system, a housing can receive an optical data signal, such as a camera flash, from a user device, such as a smart phone. The optical data signal can include a plurality of beams propagating at different propagation angles from one another. At least one of the b...