ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,126, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Gradually reducing a light setting before the start of a next section" was invented by Tobias Borra (Rijswijk, Netherlands), Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a lighting device to render light effects while an audio rendering device plays a song is configured to receive information from an audio streaming service and determine the light effects based on the information. The information is indicative of a plurality o...