ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,869, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LLINK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Brown City, Mich.).

"Lamp manufacturing process" was invented by Jeff Goulet (Dryden, Mich.) and Lisa Spencer-Conn (Mussey, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings relate to a method for identifying reusable components of a vehicle lamp assembly, the method including: i) performing an electric circuit functionality test on each component of a plurality of components of the vehicle lamp assembly; ii) performing an illumination test on each light source within the vehicle lamp assembly; iii) identifying which of the components of the plurality of compone...