ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,115, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OPPLE LIGHTING Co. LTD. (Shanghai) and SUZHOU OPPLE LIGHTING Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Magnetic absorbing guide rail component and lighting system" was invented by Liwei Zhao (Shanghai), Songjing Jiang (Shanghai), Xiaoshan Li (Shanghai) and Yu Mao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a magnetic absorbing guide rail component and a lighting system. The magnetic absorbing guide rail component includes a strip rail, an insulating member, a pair of strip electrodes, a magnetic device, and a magnet. This disclosure adopts an aluminum profile as a strip rail, the ...