ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,243, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Involving the user in context-sensing inference in a lighting arrangement" was invented by Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.) and Massimo Tumolo (Utrecht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a lighting-arrangement control device (100) for controlling operation of a lighting arrangement (150), and configured to receive, from at least one lighting device (101.1, 101.2, 101.3, 101.4) context-sensing data (CS1, PS2) correlatable to a context of a subject within a respective sensing volume (SV1, SV2). An operation cont...