ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,993, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for controlling radiofrequency sensing" was invented by Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.) and Jin Yu (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus for controlling radiofrequency sensing and audio sensing of a network. The network (100) comprises a plurality of network devices (111, 112, 113, 114), e.g. smart lights, and is adapted to perform radiofrequency sensing and audio sensing utilizing one or more of the network devices. A context parameter providing unit (121) provides context parameters, wh...