ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,840, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Wall wash insert for recessed lighting" was invented by Wei Zhao (Shanghai), William Randolph Johnson Jr. (Peachtree City, Ga.), Russell Bryant Green (Peachtree City, Ga.), Wilston Nigel Christopher Sayers (Peachtree City, Ga.), Zhihong Lin (Shanghai), Kyle Talmadge Lowery (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Ramanand Radhkrishna Kamath (Peachtree City, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wall wash insert is described here that includes a wall wash housing with a truncated conal shape, where the conal shape is truncated at a top by a circular ridge and on a...