Patents by Inventor Mikhail Victorovich Sorokin

Mikhail Victorovich Sorokin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Controlling the access to a user interface for atmosphere control with an atmosphere creation system
    Patent number: 9959400
    Abstract: The invention relates to accessing user interfaces for atmosphere controlling, particularly to comfortably accessing dedicated user interfaces of a complex atmosphere control system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide several user interfaces, each of which is provided for a certain control configuration for atmosphere control with an atmosphere creation system and to control the access to the user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Mikhail Victorovich Sorokin, Willem Piet Van Hoof
  • Lighting system and a method for determining the energy consumption of a lighting system
    Patent number: 9468079
    Abstract: The invention relates to the creation of lighting programs or scenes with a lighting system taking energy consumption into account. An embodiment of the invention provides a lighting system (10) comprising—a first database (12) containing data of the luminairies (14) of the lighting system, —a second database (16) containing information for lighting presets of the luminairies of the lighting system for a lighting scene to be created, and—a calculation module (18) being adapted to calculate the energy consumption of the lighting system based on a lighting scene to be created depending on data retrieved from the first and the second database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Mikhail Victorovich Sorokin, Johanna Cornelia Maria Francisca Tielens
  • Controlling The Access To A User Interface For Atmosphere Control With An Atmosphere Creation System
    Publication number: 20130096702
    Abstract: The invention relates to accessing user interfaces for atmosphere controlling, particularly to comfortably accessing dedicated user interfaces of a complex atmosphere control system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide several user interfaces, each of which is provided for a certain control configuration for atmosphere control with an atmosphere creation system and to control the access to the user interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Mikhail Victorovich Sorokin, Willem Piet Van Hoof