ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,405, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting controller and a lighting arrangement for mitigating stress in animals" was invented by Marc Andre De Samber (Lommel, Belgium), Aaron Benjamin Stephan (Chanhassen, Minn.), Curtis Allen Leyk (Albany, Minn.), Harry Broers ('S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Dragan Sekulovski (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Maurice Alexander Hugo Donners (Waalre, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a lighting system controller for mitigating stress of at least one animal intended to move from a first space to a second space, wherein s...