US Patent Issued to APPLETON GRP on May 6 for "Luminaire for remote monitoring of power usage" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,078, issued on May 6, was assigned to APPLETON GRP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Luminaire for remote monitoring of power usage" was invented by Timothy E. Graff (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Ravindra Viraj Gurjar (Pune, India) and Yicheng Peter Pan (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intrinsically safe (IS) luminaire disposed in a hazardous environment provides visible light and serves as a primary, auxiliary, back-up, and/or charging source of IS DC power for external devices disposed in the hazardous environment, such as process control devices and equipment. The luminaire includes a power converter that converts received powe...