ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,497, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LEEDARSON LIGHTING Co. LTD. (Fujian, China).

"Lighting apparatus" was invented by Huiwu Chen (Fujian, China), Zongyuan Liu (Fujian, China), Xiaobo Chen (Fujian, China), Yongshu Zheng (Fujian, China) and Cheng Luo (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device includes a flexible substrate, four types of LED modules, and a driver. The substrate has an elongated area divided into four bands along the Y-axis. First-type LEDs are placed on the first band in a row along the X-axis, parallel to the substrate's length. Second-, third-, and fourth-type LEDs are placed on the second, th...