US Patent Issued to Goodrich Lighting Systems on Oct. 21 for "Aircraft light, aircraft comprising an aircraft light, method of assembling an aircraft light, and method of manufacturing a sensor cap for an aircraft light" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,116, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH & Co. KG (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Aircraft light, aircraft comprising an aircraft light, method of assembling an aircraft light, and method of manufacturing a sensor cap for an aircraft light" was invented by Anil Kumar Jha (Lippstadt, Germany), Jens Leuschner (Mohnesee, Germany) and Elmar Schrewe (Anrochte, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft light comprises: at least one light source for providing an aircraft light output; a light sensor for detecting a performance level of the aircraft light output; and a sensor cap, arranged over the light sensor ...