ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,896, issued on May 20.

"Lighting system and control method of said system" was invented by Andrea Tellatin (Mestrino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system includes a plurality of lighting devices and a control unit. Each lighting device is configured to respond to command messages that include an identification code of the lighting device, the command signals being generated by the control unit to set the state of each lighting device. Furthermore, each lighting device is configured, upon receipt of the command signal, to emit an electromagnetic signal, detect electromagnetic signals generated by the other lighting ...