ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,976, issued on June 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Lighting device" was invented by Kenta Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Shintaro Hayashi (Hyogo, Japan), Takeru Sakamoto (Nara, Japan) and Seiji Yoshimura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device that is capable of illuminating in all directions includes: a case that includes a plurality of wall portions each including a face in a polygonal shape; a plurality of light-emitting elements that are provided in the plurality of wall portions and emit light toward outside of the lighting device; and a controller that c...