ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,166, issued on May 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Lighting system" was invented by Hiroshi Kitano (Hyogo, Japan), Takanori Aketa (Osaka, Japan), Taisuke Nishimori (Osaka, Japan) and Kenichiro Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system includes a light source unit and a light-distributing member. The light source unit includes a laser light source. The light-distributing member has the function of reflecting incident light that has been emitted as a beam of light from the light source unit toward a target space. The light-distributing member transforms...