ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,728, issued on May 27, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Changing transmission and/or reception characteristics for detecting events other than human presence" was invented by Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Berent Willem Meerbeek (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Hugo Jose Krajnc (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (1) is configured to cause a first set of one or more radio frequency signals to be transmitted with a first transmission characteristic and/or a first reception characteristic, e.g. by lighting devices (31-37), detect whether changes in said fi...