US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Sept. 9 for "Controller for controlling a lighting unit in an area and a method thereof" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,214, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Controller for controlling a lighting unit in an area and a method thereof" was invented by Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Tobias Borra (Rijswijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a lighting unit in an area is disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a charging status of a portable device, the charging status indicating whether the portable device is connected to a charger, receive a motion signal indicative of a motion of a user...