ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,779, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE Co. LTD. (Jinyun, China).

"LED filament and LED light bulb" was invented by Tao Jiang (Zhejiang, China), Aiming Xiong (Zhejiang, China), Fayong Liu (Zhejiang, China), Yongnan Wang (Zhejiang, China), Bao Huang (Zhejiang, China), Zhikun Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Chengyang Jiang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LED light filament includes an LED section, first and second conductive electrodes, and a conductive portion. The LED section includes LED chips. The first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode are disposed at ...