US Patent Issued to Melexis Technologies on June 30 for "Bus controlled lighting system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,604, issued on June 30, was assigned to Melexis Technologies NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

"Bus controlled lighting system" was invented by Raik Frost (Erfurt, Germany), Jens Ropcke (Erfurt, Germany), Thomas Freitag (Erfurt, Germany) and Michael Bender (Erfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system includes a master node, one or more gateway nodes, a first communication bus connecting the one or more gateway nodes to the master node, a plurality of slave nodes such that each slave node is connected to a lighting source and is arranged for conveying data messages, and one or more second communication buses, each connec...