ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,873, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Thermal performance for spot lamps" was invented by Martinus Arnoldus Cornelis Heijmans (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Oliver Francis Burke (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a light generating system (1000) comprising a housing (500) and a light generating device (100); wherein the light generating device (100) comprises an elongated support (150) and a plurality of light sources (10), wherein the light sources (10) comprise solid state light sources supported by the elongated support (150); wherein the ligh...