US Patent Issued to Zumtobel Lighting on March 11 for "Support rails for luminaires or electrical units" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,726, issued on March 11, was assigned to Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Support rails for luminaires or electrical units" was invented by Wolfgang Gadner (Dornbirn, Austria) and Gerald Ladstatter (Dornbirn, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support rail for luminaires or electrical units (60) has a support rail profile (50), which encloses an elongated receiving space, along with at least one busbar (55), arranged in the receiving space, with contactable conductors (58), wherein the support rail (50) further has, on its outside, display means (10) for visually representing the function of the conductors (58)." ...