ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,614, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Pan and tilt control of luminaire" was invented by Paul Koenig (Dallas), Travis Reinert (Mckinney, Texas) and Michelle Kessler (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated luminaire includes a head that includes a light source. The head is rotatable about a tilt axis and about a pan axis. The automated luminaire further includes a first pan absolute encoder, a second pan absolute encoder, and a controller configured to determine a pan position of the head. The controller is configured to determine the pan position of the head based on first...