ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,216, issued on July 29, was assigned to LUCIBEL SA (Barentin, France).
"Light fixture connectable to a telecommunication network" was invented by Thibault David (Saint Maurice, France), Pierre Granotier (Le Mesnil le Roi, France) and Alexis Deboos (Le Vaudreuil, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light fixture defines a first optical path of propagation of a beam of visible light through the interior of a receptacle between a light source and a lighting window, and a second optical path of propagation of a beam of infrared light through the interior of the receptacle to the lighting window with a view to forming a two-way Li-Fi ...