US Patent Issued to NICOR on Feb. 24 for "Methods and systems for a modular downlight" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,311, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NICOR INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Methods and systems for a modular downlight" was invented by Jiabin Yu (Zhongshan City, China), Yunhong Hu (Zhongshan City, China) and Dezhong Zeng (Foshan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminaire can include a light engine producing a light beam, a zoomable optic changing the light beam's solid angle, and a light conditioner that may diffuse the light beam, split the light beam, or produce a wall wash beam from the light beam. The luminaire may removably attach to a frame mounted in a ceiling. A power supply powering the light engine and a collar ...