ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,972, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hayward Industries Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Lighting system for an environment and a control module for use therein" was invented by Danny Raposo (Lincoln, R.I.), James Carter (Rehoboth, Mass.), Gregory Fournier (West Kingston, R.I.), James Murdock (Wakefield, R.I.) and Kevin Potucek (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a lighting system that includes a line control module and light modules. The line control module can be configured to interrupt power to the light modules according to one or more power interruption schemes ...