US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Feb. 25 for "Defining one or more groups in a configurable system based on device name similarity" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,842, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Defining one or more groups in a configurable system based on device name similarity" was invented by Leendert Teunis Rozendaal (Valkenswaard, Netherlands), Berent Willem Meerbeek (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (1) for configuring a configurable system that comprises a plurality of devices that have been given names is configured to obtain the names given to the plurality of devices, determine which of the plurality of devices have similarities in their names...