US Patent Issued to ArKaos on Oct. 7 for "Network protocol for communication among lighting and other devices" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,961, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ArKaos S.A. (Waterloo, Belgium).

"Network protocol for communication among lighting and other devices" was invented by Koen Buys (Waterloo, Belgium), Pete Goodliffe (Waterloo, Belgium) and Benjamin Bauwens (Waterloo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protocol for controlling lighting devices within a network enables bidirectional communication between different connected devices, any of which may function as a server, a device, a broker, or multiple of these roles. Upon initialization of the network, a server device requests a basic configuration data file from each device on the network a...