ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,482, issued on April 29, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Retractable lighting fixture" was invented by Barry Mos (Bocholt, Belgium), Peter Johannes Martinus Bukkems (Deurne, Netherlands), Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Martinus Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden (Venlo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a retractable lighting fixture, comprising an elongated drum rotatable over a length axis; and a flexible multilayer lighting sheet movable between a retracted position and a protracted position, with the multilayer lighting sheet in the retrac...