ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,851, issued on May 27, was assigned to Formetco Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Light blocking louver panel for an LED light display" was invented by Jim Shimmin (Suwanee, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LED light display having a plurality of LED bulb arrays and a louver panel defining a plurality of hole arrays. Each hole array can define openings that are sized and spaced to receive at least the distal end portions of the bulbs forming a single LED bulb array. The louver panel further has a plurality of shaped protrusions in the form of louvers that are configured to extend outwardly and forwardly from a front surface of the louver pane...