ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,714, issued on April 14, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting and internet of things design using augmented reality" was invented by Nam Chin Cho (Peachtree City, Ga.), William Thomas Cook (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Parth Joshi (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality-based lighting design method includes displaying, by an augmented reality device, a real-time image of a target physical area on a display screen. The method further includes displaying, by the augmented reality device, a lighting fixture 3-D model on the display screen in response to a user input, where the lighti...