ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,227, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE Co. LTD. (Lishui, China).

"LED filament and LED light bulb" was invented by Tao Jiang (Zhejiang, China), Mingbin Wang (Zhejiang, China), Yuexing Li (Zhejiang, China), Zhichao Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Chihshan Yu (Zhejiang, China), Aiming Xiong (Zhejiang, China), Lin Zhou (Zhejiang, China) and JunFeng Xu (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LED light bulb is provided. The LED light bulb includes a lamp housing, a bulb base, a stem, two conductive supports, a driving circuit, and a flexible LED filament. The flexible filament includes a firs...