US Patent Issued to Goodrich Lighting Systems on Sept. 23 for "Interior aircraft lighting assembly, aircraft passenger service unit with an interior aircraft lighting assembly, and method of operating an interior aircraft lighting assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,927, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH & Co. KG (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Interior aircraft lighting assembly, aircraft passenger service unit with an interior aircraft lighting assembly, and method of operating an interior aircraft lighting assembly" was invented by Christian Schon (Dortmund, Germany) and Andre Hessling-von Heimendahl (Koblenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interior aircraft lighting assembly comprises: at least one infrared lighting device for emitting infrared light; at least one further lighting device for emitting visible light; a lighting assembly controller for contro...