ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,981, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PoEWit Technologies Inc (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Control system and method" was invented by Victor Pak (San Mateo, Calif.) and Dusan Jankov (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling multiple individually addressable devices, such as lighting devices, each having a logical address based on a network addressing scheme, each lighting device being connected to a computer network through a cable that transmits electric power for powering one or more lighting elements of the lighting device. A driver multiplexes power and control to a group of lighting de...