US Patent Issued to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on July 22 for "Systems and methods for controlling outdoor lighting to reduce light pollution" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,241, issued on July 22, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for controlling outdoor lighting to reduce light pollution" was invented by Mark S. Rea (Melrose, N.Y.), Andrew Bierman (Albany, N.Y.) and John D. Bullough (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adjusting lighting to reduce sky glow. The method includes the steps of detecting, by a plurality of sensors, an amount of cloud coverage in a region of the troposphere; determining, by a sky glow reduction circuitry, whether the amount of clouds is greater than, less than, or equal to a predetermined cloud coverage thre...