US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on July 15 for "System and methods for augmenting voice commands using connected lighting systems" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,812, issued on July 15, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and methods for augmenting voice commands using connected lighting systems" was invented by Olaitan Philip Olaleye (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Dong Han (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for augmenting processing of voice commands directed to speech-based computing device via a system that includes a connected lighting system and the speech-based computing device. The method includes collecting data related to a user or environmental condition in an area proximate to the speech-based computing device...