US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on May 26 for "Servicing devices in a connected system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,406, issued on May 26, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Servicing devices in a connected system" was invented by Matthias Wendt (Wurselen, Germany) and Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to servicing devices (10, 10', 10") requiring to be serviced. The devices (10, 10', 10") are included in a connected system (100). A respective operation right is assigned to each of the devices (10, 10', 10"). An operation mode of each of the devices (10, 10', 10") depends on its assigned respective operation right. When a respective one of the devices (10, 10', ...