ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,704, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Starfire Lighting Inc. (Woodridge, N.J.).

"System, apparatus, and method for absorbing sound" was invented by Steven Klein (Wayne, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. The method includes providing a lighting assembly including at least one lighting element, attaching at least one attachment assembly to the lighting assembly, forming an empty space between the lighting assembly and a sound absorbing assembly based on attaching the sound absorbing assembly to the at least one attachment assembly, the sound absorbing assembly including at least one sound absorbing member, an...