ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,575, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Smart optical wireless communication systems" was invented by Matthias Wendt (Wurselen, Germany) and Pieter Johannes Stobbelaar (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system is provided for an optical wireless communications system comprising a plurality of optical communications access points, APs, (102) which have a combined field of view which defines a coverage area, wherein the APs are for communicating with end devices, EDs, (204) over a communications medium of an optical wireless local area network. At least one E...