ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- United States Patent no. 11,985,738, issued on May 14, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Dimmable helix LED filament arrangement and lamp" was invented by Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands) and Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a LED filament system (100) comprising a LED filament arrangement (105) and a controller (120). The LED filament arrangement comprises a plurality of LED filaments (110a-c). The LED filaments are interwound around a common central axis (A) such that each LED filament has a spiral-shape. In the LED filament arrangement, two neighbori...