US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Dec. 23 for "Luminaire with socket with prevention of water ingress" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,160, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Luminaire with socket with prevention of water ingress" was invented by Ara Balian (Montreal), Sergio Fabian Jurdana (Blainville, Canada), Jean-Francois Laporte (Mascouche, Canada) and Alexandre Plomteux (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, an apparatus comprises a housing including a cavity; a socket disposed in the cavity, wherein the socket makes direct contact with a portion of the housing surrounding the cavity; a surge protector disposed on the socket, wherein the surge protector comprises a male interfa...