ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,864, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Lighting assembly and illumination system having a lighting assembly" was invented by Bradley T. Dubs (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Jason D. Hallack (Zeeland, Mich.), Justin D. Jansen (Hudsonville, Mich.) and Ted D. Reeves (Hamilton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting assembly includes an upper mount having a pan gear and a plurality of indicator flanges. A lower mount is operably coupled to the lower mount and includes a pan motor and a tilt motor. A printed circuit board is operably coupled to the upper mount and includes a plurality of sensors. At least on...