ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,559, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH & Co. KG (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Aircraft navigation light and aircraft comprising the same" was invented by Marion Depta (Lippstadt, Germany), Anil Kumar Jha (Lippstadt, Germany) and Bjorn Schallenberg (Geseke, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft navigation light comprises a support portion, a light source comprising at least one green LED, the light source being arranged on the support portion, an optical element arranged over the light source for shaping an aircraft navigation light output, and a red light filter. A method of producing an aircraft...