ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,893, issued on May 20, was assigned to HANGZHOU TUYA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Lighting control method and apparatus for color picking based on environment, device, and storage medium" was invented by Wei Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Yicheng Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting control method and apparatus for color picking based on an environment, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an environment image in a current environment in real time; determining an effective color picking range in response to a user operation, and obtaining coordinate point data of...