ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,551, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Selecting a more suitable input modality in relation to a user command for light control" was invented by Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Massimo Tumolo (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (1) for determining a suitability of an input modality (36) for providing a user command for controlling at least one lighting device (31) is configured to receive a signal indicative of the user command for controlling the at least one lighting device. The user command is provided by a user (69) using the in...