ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,363, issued on July 7, was assigned to LEDVANCE GMBH (Garching bei Munchen, Germany).

"Lighting device and lighting system comprising the lighting device" was invented by Patrick Kotal (Regenstauf, Germany), Krister Bergenek (Regensburg, Germany) and Shijun Nie (Garching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device including an LED light source, wherein the LED light source includes a first LED strand for generating a first light with a first correlated color temperature and a second LED strand for generating a second light with a second color temperature different from the first color temperature. The lighting device fur...