US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Lens for retrofitting a lighting system with LED lights" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,120, issued on July 21.

"Lens for retrofitting a lighting system with LED lights" was invented by Myron Gordin (Osklaoosa, Iowa), Luke C. McKee (Oskaloosa, Iowa), Chris P. Lickiss (Newton, Iowa), Joel D. DeBoef (New Sharon, Iowa) and Kenneth G. Lewis Jr. (New Sharon, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for retrofitting a HID lighting system includes using existing components of previously installed HID lighting systems such as its ballasts while replacing some capacitors to adjust the power supplied to a retrofit LED luminaire. Unused ballast drivers are removed, and a self-contained ballast driver assembly is mounted in...