US Patent Issued to Sapphire IP on March 11 for "Apparatus and method for measuring far-field luminous intensity and color characteristics of light sources" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,881, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sapphire IP Inc. (Pineville, N.C.).

"Apparatus and method for measuring far-field luminous intensity and color characteristics of light sources" was invented by Michael Piscitelli (Pineville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for measuring far-field luminous intensity and color characteristics of a light source that includes a lamp test location for receiving a lamp for testing and a mirror positioned in a fixed light receiving position relative to the lamp test location and positioned in a fixed light transmitting position for reflecting a light beam from the lamp ...