ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,072, issued on April 29, was assigned to MCDERMOTT, DAMIEN (Rockledge, Fla.).

"Plural spectrum locator lighting device" was invented by Damien McDermott (Rockledge, Fla.) and Matthew Bowes (Cocoa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device including a housing; an at least partially transparent protrusion connected with a first surface of the housing; a light source within the protrusion, the light source being configured to emit light in a visible spectrum and a non-visible spectrum; a controller within the housing and configured to control the light source to emit light in a pattern including both visible spectrum and non-...