ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,988, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH & Co. KG (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Aircraft light, aircraft comprising an aircraft light, and method of assembling an aircraft light" was invented by Anil Kumar Jha (Lippstadt, Germany), Andre Hessling-von Heimendahl (Koblenz, Germany) and Elmar Schrewe (Anrochte, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft light comprises a light source support board, having a light source side and a back side; and a light source, arranged on the light source side of the light source support board; wherein the light source support board comprises a first metallic layer, the...