ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,079, issued on April 29.
"System and method of recycling light in home/store/commercial and street light fixtures" was invented by Bansi Pranav Vaidya (Calgary, Canada) and Pranav Jagadishchandra Vaidya (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein disclose a system and method for recycling light in home/store/commercial buildings and streetlight fixtures. In an embodiment, the principle of recycling (or harvesting) light is mainly by designing a special recycling light fixture or by retrofitting existing light fixtures. The recycling light fixture has a lining plurality of photovoltaic cells which captures th...