US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on June 17 for "Synchronizing a light effect and a spoken description of the light effect" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,078, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Synchronizing a light effect and a spoken description of the light effect" was invented by Tobias Borra (Rijswijk, Netherlands), Berent Willem Meerbeek (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for adjusting a delay setting based on user input is configured to control playback of an audio segment (51) and control a light source to render a light effect (67). The audio segment comprises a spoken description (54) of the light effect. The audio segment is played back at...