US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA on July 7 for "Lighting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,706, issued on July 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA (Osaka, Japan).

"Lighting device" was invented by Hideki Sakai (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Iyota (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of thin plates whose surfaces facing a center are configured to absorb light. By rearranging the at least one thin plate by moving the at least one thin plate at an angle smaller than 360 degrees about an axis, it is possible to form a curved plate having a double right-angled spherical triangular shape by all of the plurality of thin ...