US Patent Issued to USAI on Sept. 16 for "Recessed light fixture with housing with internal heat sink and an LED module with conductive base removably mounted therein and coupled to the heat sink" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,394, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to USAI (New Windsor, N.Y.).

"Recessed light fixture with housing with internal heat sink and an LED module with conductive base removably mounted therein and coupled to the heat sink" was invented by Timothy Wickham (Tappan, N.Y.), Oriana J. Starr (New Paltz, N.Y.), Frank Cogliano (Pomona, N.Y.) and Howard D. Delano (Kingston, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recessed light fixture has a heat sink and a removable light engine assembly. A thermally conductive base of the light engine assembly has an LED and has a thermal interface adapted for thermal coupling to a thermal interface of the h...