ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,256, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Lighting appartus and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jieun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunha Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joayoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting apparatus including a lighting module configured to emit light; and at least one processor configured to determine a color and a brightness of a current scene of content displayed on a display apparatus, and to control the lighting module to emit, in a space in which the display apparatus is located, light with a color and b...