ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,831, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ROBE lighting s.r.o. (Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic).
"Progressive frost in a luminaire" was invented by Marek Vaclavek (Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic), Petr Nemec (Krhova, Czech Republic), Jan Vilem (Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic) and Josef Valchar (Prostredni Becva, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminaire includes a light source configured to generate an emitted light beam and a diffusion wheel subsystem. The subsystem includes a first diffusion wheel to provide different degrees of diffusion to the light beam, and a second diffusion wheel stacked with the fir...