ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,140, issued on June 23.

"Corner deflection element for an LED lighting strip" was invented by Sascha Freudenberger (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Simon Frech (Urbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corner deflection element for a lighting strip has a lower side which forms a flat base surface. A strip-shaped upper-side guide track is for the lighting strip, which has two track legs that are angled against each other in relation to the flat base surface by an angle of between about 45deg and about 135deg and, in particular, by about 90deg. A corner deflection track section is located between the two track legs and stand...