US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Jan. 13 for "Transmitting a notification in dependence on what caused a light source to be on while a user is away" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,901, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Transmitting a notification in dependence on what caused a light source to be on while a user is away" was invented by Jean Petrus Anna Herfs (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Keke Dandois (Minderhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving (101) user information, determining (103) that a user is away from home based on the user information, and receiving (105) light information from a lighting system which comprises a light source. The light information is indicative of the state of the light source. The method further com...