ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,242, issued on July 22, was assigned to HAVEN LIGHTING INC. (Union, Ky.).

"Lighting system with distributed programming" was invented by Christopher R. McCoy (Union, Ky.) and Jonathan Fazekas (Burlington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system is provided that includes: a plurality of lighting fixtures, each lighting fixture including a processor, a memory, a communication interface and one or more light sources; and a computerized controller, including a communication interface for communicating with the plurality of light fixtures. The system is configured such that the computerized controller uploads light show progr...