ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,608, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ningbo Dongxing Electric Co. Ltd. (Cixi City, China).

"Panel light" was invented by Dingyi Wang (Cixi City, China) and Yiping Yu (Cixi City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel lamp comprise a lamp housing, a light emitting assembly disposed inside the lamp housing, a lampshade having a top surface disposed under the lamp housing, the lamp housing comprises a roof and a circle of peripheral wall extending downward from an edge of the roof, the lamp housing has a first connecting plate extending outward from an edge of the peripheral wall, the lampshade has a fourth connecting plate e...