ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,072, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Centralized control of lighting-enabled peripheral devices" was invented by Connor Colin Marwan Al-Joundi (Seattle), Eric Norman Badger (Redmond, Wash.), Tyler Duckworth (Redmond, Wash.), Stephanie Ling Diao (Seattle), Emily Lynn Bender (Seattle), Jerome Stephen Healy (Seattle), Jan-Kristian Markiewicz (Redmond, Wash.) and Sophia Sixue Chen (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein implement a centralized lighting module configured to control a diverse set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices. The set of light...