US Patent Issued to SimpliSafe on July 15 for "Detection and illumination of dark zones via collaborative lighting" (Georgia, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,811, issued on July 15, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Detection and illumination of dark zones via collaborative lighting" was invented by Ginger Chien (Bellevue, Wash.), Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Robert T. Moton Jr. (Alpharetta, Ga.), Adrianne Binh Luu (Atlanta) and Robert Koch (Peachtree Corners, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor may detect at least one dark zone in a vicinity of a user, determine at least one lighting feature for an illumination of the at least one dark zone in accordance with a user profile of the user, identify at l...