ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,492, issued on June 3, was assigned to Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Lighting fixture systems" was invented by Zachary C. Shiner (MAdison, Wis.), Timne Bilton (Arcadia, Calif.), Robert Nankil (Fullerton, Calif.), Yang Liu (Irvine, Calif.) and Adam Zepeda (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting apparatus that includes a housing having first and second sidewalls, a top housing wall disposed between the first and second sidewalls, and an open end disposed between the sidewalls and opposite the top housing wall. The housing includes a housing interior enclosed by the sidewalls and the top housing wal...