ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,118, issued on March 25, was assigned to EXPOSURE ILLUMINATION ARCHITECTS INC. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Vertical illumination device with lamp modules having nano-optical lenses configured to uniformly illuminate horizontal areas below" was invented by Daniel S. Spiro (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device includes a support section, a heatsink coupled above the support section and including a plurality of flat vertical exterior surfaces, a driver housing coupled above the heatsink, a plurality of light source modules coupled to the exterior surfaces of the heatsink, and a plurality of nano-optical len...