US Patent Issued to Zumtobel Lighting, Thorn Lighting on July 14 for "Printed circuit board for an LED module, LED module, and LED lights" (Austrian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,676, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Dornbirn, Austria) and Thorn Lighting Ltd. (London).

"Printed circuit board for an LED module, LED module, and LED lights" was invented by Peter Archer (Durham, Great Britain), Tamrat Desta (Dornbirn, Austria) and Cristian Olariu (Dornbirn, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board (1) for an LED module (2) comprises mechanical weaknesses (11) in a substrate of the printed circuit board (1), which weaknesses form at least one at least electrically interruptible substrate bridge (12A, 12B), and a plug connector (13) having four terminals (13.1-13.4) A...