US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Sept. 2 for "Lighting device with a built in antenna" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,085, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting device with a built in antenna" was invented by Shanshan Qu (Shanghai) and Yue He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device (such as a LED bulb) has a light source (18), a base part (12) and an upper part (62) mounted over the base part (12) with an internal volume (64) defined between them. Within the internal volume (64) there is a two-segment antenna. A first antenna segment (40) extends outwardly from the base part (12) towards the internal volume (64) and a second antenna segment (50) is held by the upper part (62) a...