ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,892, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Eye safe laser lighting system using built in safety" was invented by Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Dominique Maria Bruls (Heeze, Netherlands), Robert Van Asselt (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) and Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a light generating system (1000) comprising a light generating device (100), a luminescent material layer (200), and optics (400), wherein: (I) the light generating device (100) is configured to generate polarized laser radiation (101); (II) the l...