US Patent Issued to Flex-N-Gate Advanced Product Development on March 17 for "Optical void pattern lighting arrangement" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,073, issued on March 17, was assigned to Flex-N-Gate Advanced Product Development LLC (Windsor, Canada).

"Optical void pattern lighting arrangement" was invented by Todd Nykerk (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting arrangement system including a light source and an optical void pattern formed into a substrate. The optical void pattern is formed using a laser and includes voids configured to alter light paths of light rays emitted from the light source directed towards the void pattern. The light paths are altered to form a light ray emission arrangement emitted from the substrate."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1...