ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,794, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).
"Explosion protected luminaire" was invented by Ivon Dachlan (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Paolo Camillo (Glasgow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discusses components that can be used to prevent flame or hot gas transmission from the inside of a luminaire enclosure to the outside of a luminaire enclosure due to an internal explosion, thereby yielding an explosion encapsulating luminaire enclosure. Accordingly, the components and assemblies described herein can be safely integrated with systems that operate in the presence explosive gas....