ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,386, issued on June 17, was assigned to ABL IP Holding LLC (Atlanta).
"Silicone optics" was invented by Craig Eugene Marquardt (Covington, Ga.), Forrest Starnes McCanless (Oxford, Ga.), Jie Chen (Snellville, Ga.), John Bryan Harvey (Newark, Ohio), Yinan Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Daniel Aaron Weiss (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silicone-containing light fixture optics. A method for manufacturing an optical component may include mixing two precursors of silicone, opening a first gate of an optic forming device, moving the silicone mixture from the extrusion machine into the optic forming device, cooling the silicone mixtur...