ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,317, issued on July 21, was assigned to AIRSTAR SAS (Le Champ-Pres-Froges, France).

"Lighting device" was invented by Simon Emberger (Le Champ-Pres-Froges, France), Adrien Dupuis (Le Champ-Pres-Froges, France), Florian Watelet (Le Champ-Pres-Froges, France) and Sebastien Francois (Le Champ-Pres-Froges, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a lighting device comprising: an electrically-conductive support structure (130); and a plurality of elementary lighting modules (110) fastened to the support structure, each elementary module comprising a printed circuit board and, assembled on the printed circuit ...