US Patent Issued to Hubbell on July 1 for "System and method for integrated surveillance and communication into lighting equipment" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,504, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"System and method for integrated surveillance and communication into lighting equipment" was invented by Christopher Bailey (Greenville, S.C.), Timothy Willis (Clemson, S.C.), Thomas Hill III (Spartanburg, S.C.) and Pritam Yadav (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a first luminaire housing, a second luminaire housing, and a controller. The first luminaire housing includes a first light source configured to provide illumination to a first location, and a first I/O device configured to sense a first data set corresponding the first loc...