US Patent Issued to University of Washington on April 21 for "Adaptive illuminance control" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,446, issued on April 21, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Adaptive illuminance control" was invented by Mark Gerges (Seattle) and Xu Chen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, via. a. user interface of a computing device, input indicating target illuminances that correspond to surfaces of an object, determining, via the computing device, power levels for compensatory light sources based on the target illuminances and positions and orientations of the surfaces with respect to the compensatory light sources, and causing, via. the computing device, the compensatory light sources to ope...