ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,372, issued on March 4, was assigned to Carbon Autonomous Robotic Systems Inc. (Seattle).

"High intensity illumination systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Alexander Igorevich Sergeev (Newcastle, Wash.) and Paul Anthony Mikesell (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are high intensity illumination systems including lighting arrays of lights, such as light emitting diodes, configured to illuminate a surface. The lighting arrays are configured to illuminate the surface with illumination comparable to or multiple times brighter than the ambient illumination, such as sunlight. Also described here...