ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,665, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Rendering a visual distraction for a user looking at a display too long" was invented by Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Hendrikus Johan Andrie De Vries (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Tobias Borra (Rijswijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to determine whether a user has been looking at a display (15) longer than a predefined period of time, determine a first location of a device (14) which comprises the display, determine second locations ...