ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,994, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Directional lighting device" was invented by Jaap Huijgen (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Odin Visser (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Jeffrey Huyghe (Heule, Belgium) and Frederik Andre' Martin Vanslambrouck (Oostrozebeke, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure proposes an improved directional lighting device (10) comprising a supporting structure (11); a ball-joint structure (12) mounted to the supporting structure (11); a housing (13) configured to accommodate a light emitting source (14); electric wiring (15) fed from the supporting structure...