US Patent Issued to Electronic Theatre Controls on Jan. 13 for "Focus assistance for rotating luminaire based on measurements by independently rotating distance sensor" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,355, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Electronic Theatre Controls Inc. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Focus assistance for rotating luminaire based on measurements by independently rotating distance sensor" was invented by Maxwell Schweiner (Middleton, Wis.), Evan Gnam (Madison, Wis.), Matthew Stoner (Middleton, Wis.) and Noah Meltzer (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system capable of providing automated focus assistance for a rotatable lighting fixture thereof. In one example, an independently rotatable distance-measurement device located in the same theater-stage or light-show environment as the rotatable lighting ...