ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,393, issued on May 27, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Proximity-based commissioning system" was invented by Marco Haverlag (Mierlo, Netherlands), Francisco Jose Estevez Ortiz (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Rene Van Honschooten (Nuenen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To commission a plurality of nodes (200) to a network (100), a proximity-based commissioning has certain benefits. However, to get a proper proximity estimation in an area with a large number of nodes (200) deployed in a dense network may not be an easy task. To address this problem, nodes (200) to be commissioned are configured ...