ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,176, issued on May 6, was assigned to M3 INNOVATION LLC (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Modular auxiliary lighting system with asymmetrical illumination sources" was invented by Christopher D. Nolan (Camillus, N.Y.) and Joseph R. Casper (Baldwinsville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system, having a lighting module; an auxiliary lighting module connected to a pole, the auxiliary lighting module having a coupler; a housing extending along a longitudinal axis and having an elongated opening, the housing containing an illumination source therein extending along the longitudinal axis; a battery; and a controller stack connected to the...