ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,610, issued on March 24, was assigned to HARMAN PROFESSIONAL DENMARK APS (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"System for an optical device including light mixing rod and resilient member" was invented by Uffe Kjaergaard Toft (Hojbjerg, Denmark), Carsten Dalsgaard (Silkeborg, Denmark), Frank Kjaer Jensen (Skodstrup, Denmark) and Jutta Winkler (Risskov, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for an optical device. The optical device includes a light emitting diode in face-sharing contact with a light mixing rod. A resilient member is configured to maintain the light mixing rod in face-sharing contact with the light emitting diod...