US Patent Issued to NXP on Sept. 8 for "Lighting device and method of operation" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,075, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting device and method of operation" was invented by Stefan Tertinek (Graz, Austria) and Bernhard Grosswindhager (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a networkable lighting device is provided, comprising: an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication unit; a mode controller operatively coupled to the UWB communication unit; wherein the mode controller is configured to cause the UWB communication unit to operate in a radar mode; and wherein the UWB communication unit is configured to, when opera...