ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,670, issued on July 14, was assigned to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS INC. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Illumination systems employing laminated sheet-form optical structures with embedded TIR channels" was invented by Sergiy Vasylyev (Elk Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system comprising a lighting module with a plurality of LEDs, a flexible optically transmissive sheet disposed in an energy-receiving relationship with the lighting module, and broad-area reflective surface configured to reflectively scatter light. The flexible optically transmissive sheet has a laminated structure with a generally rectangular ...