US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Sept. 22 for "Radio frequency support for establishing wireless optical connections" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,598, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Radio frequency support for establishing wireless optical connections" was invented by Andreas Felix Alfred Bluschke (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Francisco David Rojas Calvente (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Nancy Yushan Lee (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to an incorporation of radio frequency (RF) access capabilities (e.g., Wi-Fi station capabilities) to an access point (AP) and/or endpoint (EP) of a wireless optical communication network (e.g. LiFi network) to be able to perform discovery, authenticati...