ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,100, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Olight Group Co. Ltd (Zhongshan, China).

"Lighting devices" was invented by Hangjin He (Zhongshan, China), Manchun Cai (Zhongshan, China) and Ziyang Zhou (Zhongshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a lighting device having a spherical shaped object called a sphere or a globe. The lighting device has a lamp housing having a spherical receiving space, a lamp source assembly disposed in the spherical receiving space of the lamp housing, a battery assembly and a diffuser, the lamp source assembly having a flexible circuit board and a plurality of lamp beads disp...