ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,790, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ARNOLD & RICHTER CINE TECHNIK GMBH & Co. BETRIEBS KG (Munich).

"Illumination apparatus" was invented by Erwin Melzner (Frasdorf, Germany), Volker Schumacher (Bad Waldsee, Germany) and Frank Hendricks (Bad Waldsee, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and embodiments disclosed herein include an illumination apparatus comprising an LED light generating device comprising groups of LEDs spatially distributed on an emission surface for the generation of light, the generated light being emitted from the emission surface of the LED light generating device through a transparent and resistant pr...