US Patent Issued to Schreder on June 24 for "Lamp control module consisting of base and control parts, communicating via NFC" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,441, issued on June 24, was assigned to Schreder S.A. (Brussels).

"Lamp control module consisting of base and control parts, communicating via NFC" was invented by Helmut Schroeder (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Daniel Brand (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a control arrangement for mounting on an external surface of a luminaire. The control arrangement comprises a control module (1) and a control module base configured to be mounted to one another. The control module base comprises a near-field communication means configured to communicate with a near-field communication unit provided in the control mod...