ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,055, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to 10644137 CANADA INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Reliable and self-sufficient lighting system and method therefor" was invented by Majid Pahlevaninezhad (Kingston, Canada), Milad Zareie Khabjani (Calgary, Canada) and Hamid Pahlevaninezhad (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting apparatus has a lighting component, an energy storage unit, a photovoltaic (PV) panel for at least one of powering the lighting component and charging the energy storage unit, a wind turbine having a plurality of rotatable blades coupled to a generator for at least one of powering the lighting component and c...