ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,306, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LUMINII LLC (Niles, Ill.).
"Adjustable-beam luminaires" was invented by Christopher Gladden (San Mateo, Calif.), Andrew Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Kozodoy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Barbara Kruse (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminaire for providing configurable static lighting or dynamically-adjustable lighting. The luminaire uses an array of focusing elements that act on light provided via a corresponding array of sources or via an edge-lit lightguide. Designs are provided for adjusting the number of distinct beams produced by the luminaire, as well as the angular width, ang...