ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,894, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Lumileds Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"LED lighting strip with bent wires" was invented by Christian Kleijnen (Ell, Netherlands), Florent Gregoire Monestier (Kerkrade, Netherlands), Barbara Roswitha Mulders (Aachen, Germany), Tobias Kurth (Aachen, Germany) and Georg Friedrich Alfons Henninger (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LED lighting strip, method of manufacturing an LED lighting strip and an automotive lighting system are described. The LED lighting strip (100) includes at least two outer wires (12, 14), at least one central wire (15) between the two outer wires, LED...