ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,334, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Executing control command in dependence on presence being detected" was invented by Dave Willem Van Goor (Nederweert Eind, Netherlands) and Richard Ludwig Eduard Van Haasen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (1) controllable by a short-range point-to-point radio frequency signal, e.g. a Bluetooth signal from a mobile device (23), is configured to receive, e.g. from the mobile device and neighboring lighting devices (11-12), one or more signals which comprise the short-range point-to-point radio frequency signal, determ...