ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,896, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light system" was invented by Hiroshi Kitano (Hyogo, Japan), Taisuke Nishimori (Osaka, Japan), Tsuyoshi Morizumi (Osaka, Japan) and Kenichiro Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light system includes a light source unit including a laser light source, and a photoelectric transducer having the ability to generate photovoltaic power. The photoelectric transducer generates the photovoltaic power when receiving power feed light emerging from the light source unit. The light source unit may cause the power feed l...