ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,364, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Lighting system including mounting rail with an integrated waveguide" was invented by Steffen Block (Horbranz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a lighting system comprising a mounting rail assembly comprising conductors for mains supply integrated into the mounting rail assembly, and mechanical mounting fixtures for lighting modules, lighting control modules and/or other system modules, and a first wireless node module attached to the mounting rail assembly. The mounting rail assembly comprises at least one second wireles...