ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,687, issued on April 7, was assigned to Schreder S.A. (Brussels).

"Method for configuring a luminaire system and device for use therein" was invented by Laurent Secretin (Liege, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a luminaire system comprising a first device and a second device, and a control line between said first device and said second device, wherein said second device is configurable to send and/or receive signals through the control line to/from the first device using any one of a plurality of different protocols, and wherein said first device is configured to use one of the plurality of different pr...