ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,162, issued on June 16, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting system for poultry" was invented by Marc Andre De Samber (Lommel, Belgium), Aaron Benjamin Stephan (Chanhassen, Minn.), Harry Broers ('S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Curtis Allen Leyk (Albany, Mich.), Dragan Sekulovski (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jack Tieberg (Plymouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system (100) for controlling the movement of poultry (190). One or more properties of poultry (190) are obtained and used to define one or more characteristics of a light beam (115) or light beams (115) and thereby the light...