ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,959, issued on June 16, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Optical component, luminaire comprising such a component and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Johannes Petrus Maria Ansems (Hulsel, Netherlands) and Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an optical component (100) for beam shaping comprising a conical reflector (101) having an inner surface being diffusely reflective, a transparent refractive hollow dome-shaped member (102), wherein said transparent refractive hollow dome-...