ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,477, issued on June 3, was assigned to RHEINMETALL SOLDIER ELECTRONICS GMBH (Stockach, Germany).
"Luminaire" was invented by Rolf Stocker (Stockach, Germany), Maria Hontsch (Pfullendorf, Germany) and Alexander Gaisser (Aach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a luminaire comprising a housing, at least two radiation sources and at least one directing means. The directing means is used to direct the emission of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the radiation sources. According to the invention, the radiation sources are all located in the center of the directing means such that the radiation sources are a...