ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,727, issued on March 11, was assigned to Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Dornbirn, Austria).
"Mounting rail for luminaires or electric units" was invented by Andreas Machate (Wangen im Allgau, Germany) and Vamberszky Klaus (Bregenz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a mounting rail (1) for luminaires (100, 150) or electric units, having a mounting rail profile (2) with two lateral walls (4) and a connecting wall (5) which connects the lateral walls (4) to each other, said walls together enclosing an elongated receiving chamber (3), and having at least one busbar (10, 20) which is arranged on one of the two inne...