ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,834, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting controller" was invented by Fetze Pijlman (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a lighting controller arranged for controlling a lighting device in response to a presence detected within a detection radius of a presence sensor; characterized in that the lighting controller is configured to: determine a current lighting status of the lighting device indicative of whether the lighting device provides a lighting characteristic; determine a current presence detection status indicative of whether the p...