ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,116, issued on July 21, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"User interface device for controlling reorientable lighting devices" was invented by Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Leendert Teunis Rozendaal (Valkenswaard, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface device for use in a lighting system is disclosed. The lighting system comprises a plurality of lighting devices, each lighting device being repositionable by a user, and each lighting device comprising a motion sensor configured to detect a mo...