US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Virtual ambient illuminance sensor system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,962, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtual ambient illuminance sensor system" was invented by Nobuyuki Suzuki (Kirkland, Wash.), Samu Matias Kallio (Redmond, Wash.), Kari Jussi Ropo (Redmond, Wash.) and Simon Tao (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The virtual ambient illuminance sensor system disclosed herein provides a method including detecting presence of an external device in vicinity of the device, wherein the external device is communicatively connected to the device, communicating with the external device to determine that the external device has an illumin...