US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Oct. 14 for "Performing visible light communication with a lighting unit" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,128, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Performing visible light communication with a lighting unit" was invented by Marco Haverlag (Mierlo, Netherlands), Marcel Beij (Sint Oedenrode, Netherlands), Berend Jan Willem Ter Weeme (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Eugen Jacob De Mol (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Richard Godefridus Cornelis Van Der Wolf (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for performing a communication using a visible light communication (VLC) protocol. The mechanism proposes to modulate a bus voltage provided to all lighting elements (comprising LED ele...