ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,920, issued on June 17, was assigned to PARO HOLDING GMBH (Starnberg, Germany).

"Lighting device with light distribution body" was invented by Axel Meise (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within the scope of the present invention, a lighting device, in particular for lighting an interior, is specified, which comprises a lighting means 3, and a light distribution body 1 having a light coupling-in surface 11 and a translucent light exit region 12; wherein the light distribution body 1 is configured to emit a first part of the light emitted by the lighting means 3 and introduced into the light distribution body 1 via the light coup...