ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,196, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schreder S.A. (Brussels).
"Luminaire system with SPD" was invented by Peter Balazs Bedo (Budapest, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to luminaire systems with SPD. One example luminaire system includes a luminaire housing, a support with at least one light source arranged thereon, a drive means configured for driving the at least one light source, a surge protection device between a power supply and the drive means, and an indicator device. The surge protection device includes surge protection circuitry and monitoring circuitry configured to monitor a malfunction...