ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,987, issued on March 3, was assigned to MAXIM LIGHTING INTERNATIONAL INC. (City of Industry, Canada).

"Conductive mounting structures for lighting lamps" was invented by Shuqian Fan (Jiaxing City, China), Nathan Joseph Sperling (City of Industry, Calif.), Jacob Sperling (City of Industry, Calif.), Deyuan Li (Jiaxing City, China) and Li Wang (Jiaxing City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive mounting structure for a lighting lamp. The lighting lamp comprises a first assembly (1) connected to a power supply and a second assembly (2) having a light source; the first assembly (1) comprises a first mounting member (11), and ...