ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,916, issued on May 5, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Controlling an environmental condition based on anticipated influence of control of a further environmental condition" was invented by Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Lambertus Antonius Johannes Van De Wijdeven (Sint Oedenrode, Netherlands) and Rob Franciscus Maria Van Elmpt (Roermond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (31) for determining at least one control parameter for at least one device (41) controlling an environmental condition in a plain growing environment is configured to obtain one or m...