ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,566, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich).

"System and method for controlling a light source for illuminating a scene of interest" was invented by Markus Hehn (Zurich, Switzerland) and Luciano Beffa (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling a light source (7), the method using (a) at least one pose estimate (1) of a camera (8) configured to capture one or more images of a scene of interest (13) which comprises at least one landmark (9), as said light source is operated to emit light which illuminates said scene of interest, (b) a landmark map (2) comprising at...