US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus and methods for exchanging data in a hybrid optical wireless communication system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,527, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and methods for exchanging data in a hybrid optical wireless communication system" was invented by Michel Germe (Cormelles le Royal, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical wireless communication, OWC, system, an apparatus (200) is configured to operate in a first mode to enable a first functionality where the apparatus acts as a bridge device between an OWC access point (400) and a first end device out of one or more end devices (300a, 300b, 300c, 300d), or in a second mode to enable a second functionality where the apparatus ...