ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,680, issued on July 14, was assigned to Xiamen PVTECH Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Downlight with screw-free fixation structure" was invented by Haibo Hong (Xiamen, China), Fuxing Lu (Xiamen, China), Liangliang Cao (Xiamen, China) and Jinsheng Li (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downlight with screw-free fixation structure includes a lamp body and a light source board. The lamp body has a central hole, an inner ring body, and a plurality of protrusions. The inner ring body is disposed on the inner edge of the lamp body to partially cover the central hole. The protrusions are distributed along the inner edge of the lamp b...