US Patent Issued to Helvar on Aug. 12 for "Technique for controlling operational dependencies among luminaires of a lighting system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,514, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Helvar Oy Ab (Espoo, Finland).

"Technique for controlling operational dependencies among luminaires of a lighting system" was invented by Henri Juslen (Espoo, Finland) and Matti Vesterinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a lighting system includes a lighting system control entity and a plurality of luminaires wirelessly coupled to the lighting system control entity. The method includes controlling light output of a respective luminaire in accordance with a preprogrammed lighting control logic that defines switching on the light output in response to detecting occupanc...