ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,989, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to IQS GROUP s.r.o. (Husinec-Rez, Czech Republic).
"Optics for luminaires" was invented by Petr Lobaz (Plzen, Czech Republic), Zbynek Ryzi (Littleton, Mass.) and Martin Nyvlt (Prague).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element (1) for use in a luminaire, especially a linear luminaire, for creating a prescribed output light distribution pattern from light emitted by a light source at a predetermined location relative to the optical element (1), the optical element (1) comprising a body including a surface which comprises a faceted structure (3), the faceted structure (3) comprising one or mor...