ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,899, issued on May 20, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Controlling an array of light segments based on user interaction with virtual representations in color space" was invented by Tobias Borra (Rijswijk, Netherlands) and Berent Willem Meerbeek (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to display a visual representation (41) of a color space and repositionable virtual representations (51-55) of individually addressable light segments overlaid on the visual representation of the color space. The light segments have a fixed spatial relationship in an array and the virt...