ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,389, issued on March 31, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method of merging two lighting systems" was invented by Tobias Georg Tolle (Beerse, Belgium) and Hugo Jose Krajnc (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of merging a first lighting system with a second lighting system is disclosed. The first lighting system can have a plurality of first lighting devices located in a space and a first lighting control system, and the second lighting system can have a plurality of second lighting devices located in the space and a second lighting control system. The method can obtain signa...