ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,809, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Lighting device with inner and outer heat sinks having different thermal conductivities" was invented by Ryan M. Bocock (Austin, Texas), Robert Bollinger Jr. (Fogelsville, Pa.), Richard S. Camden (Coopersburg, Pa.), Kevin L. Gascho (Bethlehem, Pa.), Robert C. Newman Jr. (Emmaus, Pa.) and Peter W. Ogden Jr. (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device (e.g., a controllable light-emitting diode illumination device) may have a light-generation module that may be assembled and calibrated prior to the light-generation module being insta...