US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on March 17 for "Preventing or limiting control of a first lighting system by a second lighting system" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,579, issued on March 17, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Preventing or limiting control of a first lighting system by a second lighting system" was invented by Hugo Jose Krajnc (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Tobias Georg Tolle (Beerse, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (1) for preventing or limiting control of a lighting device (31-33) in a first connected lighting system (41) is configured to determine a current or expected state of the lighting device, determine control permissions based on the current or expected state of the lighting device, and prevent or limit control of the lighting...