US Patent Issued to CREE LIGHTING USA on Jan. 20 for "Lighting fixture with peripheral light emission feature" (North Carolina, Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,464, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CREE LIGHTING USA LLC (Racine, Wis.).

"Lighting fixture with peripheral light emission feature" was invented by Nathan R. Snell (Raleigh, N.C.), Randy Bernard (Durham, N.C.), Kurt Schreib (Waukesha, Wis.), Moxuan Zhu (Cary, N.C.) and Kurt S. Wilcox (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting fixture incorporates a peripheral light emission feature, such as a peripheral waveguide and/or a peripheral reflector region. A peripheral light emission feature may at least partially surround a non-peripheral feature that may include a light-transmissive panel. At least one first light ...