Patents Assigned to ABL IP Holding LLC
  • Patent number: 11224109
    Abstract: A method for testing an emergency lighting product connected to a network includes creating, at a network control device, a first test schedule for causing the emergency lighting product to perform a test, where the test is scheduled to be performed by the emergency lighting product based on a signal received from the network control device after a first time period. The method further includes creating, at the emergency lighting product, a second test schedule for causing the emergency lighting product to perform the test after a second time period, where the second time period is longer than the first time period and begins at the same time as the first time period, and determining, by the emergency lighting product after the second time period, that the signal has not been received from the network control device, and performing, by the emergency lighting product, the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Hanley, Kenneth Edwin Nelson, Emanuel Malandrakis
  • Patent number: 11215341
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a housing, a bezel, and an optic. The bezel is coupled to the housing such that the optic is positioned between at least a portion of the bezel and the housing. The bezel includes a drainage system, and the drainage system includes at least one drainage opening in the bezel proximate to a front side of the light fixture and at least one weep opening between the bezel and the optic. The drainage system also includes a drainage gap between the housing and the bezel proximate to a back side of the light fixture that is opposite the front side and a drainage channel in fluid communication with the at least one drainage opening, the at least one weep opening, and the drainage gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Philip Sieczkowski
  • Patent number: 11193666
    Abstract: A linear luminaire comprising a scalable driver channel. The driver channel may be monolithic, formed by extrusion and cut to a custom length. The driver channel may provide a sealed enclosure for light engines and other components of the linear luminaire. The sealed enclosure may further be defined by end caps coupled to ends of the driver channel and light modules and accessory modules coupled to the bottom of the driver channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Paul W. Lewis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11181255
    Abstract: Apparatus for coupling a luminaire with a surface includes a mounting plate having or more studs extending therefrom, a back plate for a luminaire, and a latch. The back plate forms slots that can receive the studs. The back plate can move in a first direction with the studs received within the slots. The latch couples with the back plate, and can engage one of the studs that extends through one of the slots. In a first rotational position of the latch with respect to the back plate, the latch does not engage the stud, and in a second rotational position of the latch with respect to the back plate, the latch engages the stud in a direction different from the first direction, so as to constrain movement of the back plate in the first direction, latching the back plate to the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Kaitlyn T. Crawford
  • Patent number: 11181680
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing, light-emitting diodes and a light guide. A lateral direction from a top side to a bottom side of the housing is a preferred direction. A front side of the housing forms an aperture. The light guide substantially spans the aperture. In operation, the LEDs emit light toward the preferred direction, which light enters a light coupling surface of the light guide, where it propagates and is substantially retained by total internal reflection. The light guide includes light extraction features to redirect a portion of the light out of total internal reflection, so that some of the light exits the housing through the aperture. The light extraction features redirect some of the light so that more of the light exits the aperture between a normal direction of the light guide and the preferred direction, than between the normal direction and the non-preferred direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. Sorensen, Christopher D. Slaughter, Joshua J. Miller, Peter K. Nelson, Carl T. Gould, Zachary A. Ingalls
  • Patent number: 11175012
    Abstract: A light fixture for lighting a surface includes a housing, a plurality of light sources, and a reflector for directing light out of a window of the housing. The plurality of light sources are directed away from the window of the housing and are then not directly viewable from the exterior of the housing while providing light reflected against the reflector through the window of the housing. The light sources are connected to a substrate through which power is supplied to the light sources and through which heat energy is removed from the light sources during operation. The substrate may form a portion of the housing of the light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Qi Ai, Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 11175004
    Abstract: A cove lighting system includes a plurality of cove extrusions and a plurality of mounting brackets. Each cove extrusion is a single extrusion defining a cove channel and mounting features. The mounting brackets are attached to the wall and the cove extrusions are hung from the mounting brackets with the mounting features. The cove extrusions are hung immediately adjacent to each other to define a continuous cove channel to receive one or more power boxes, and one or more luminaires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Sparsh Chokshi, Jeremy Stone, Kaitlyn T. Crawford, Kristen A. Aceto-Netemeyer, Arvind Kashogi
  • Patent number: 11178002
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wireless lighting control network includes determining, by a first network device, whether a message is received from a control device during a first time interval; in response to determining that the message was not received, transmitting, by the first network device, a message to other network devices to determine whether another network device received the message from the control device; in response to determining, during a second time interval, that the first network device did not receive the message from the control device and did not receive an indication from another network device that the message from the control device was received, transmitting a message to the other network devices to indicate that the first network device is a substitute control device; and periodically transmitting messages to the other network devices indicating that the first network device is an active substitute control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Gomez Sam Selvaraj
  • Patent number: 11162652
    Abstract: A minimally complex, low cost/economical luminaire that distributes point source light for general lighting applications, the luminaire having a substrate with a linear array of discrete light sources positioned to emit light into an air-filled cavity and a light redirecting assembly on the other side the air-filled cavity, the assembly comprising a clear, light transmissive rigid cover and a clear, light transmissive semi-rigid flexible film positioned between the cover and the substrate, wherein the film is non-adhesively secured within the luminaire and flexed to generally conform to the shape of the cover and wherein the surface of the film facing into the air-filled cavity comprises an array of optical relief structures extending into the air-filled cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: John N. Magno, Eric W. Teather, Christopher C. Rich
  • Patent number: 11160155
    Abstract: An intelligent lighting system may be installed using pre-existing electrical wiring, such as in a construction or retrofit environment. An intelligent lighting controller and an intelligent lighting fixture may be connected via electrical wiring that is configured for transmitting AC power signals. A commissioning signal may be transmitted to the intelligent lighting fixtures via the electrical wiring. In some cases, the intelligent lighting controller modifies portions of the AC power signal to indicate the commissioning signal. The intelligent lighting fixtures may receive the commissioning signal via the electrical wiring. In some cases, each intelligent lighting fixture that is connected to the electrical wiring, such as each intelligent lighting fixture on a lighting circuit in a room, receives the commissioning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Richard Lee Westrick, Jr., Dalibor Zulim, Marc Saes
  • Patent number: 11149938
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a first light source positioned at a first level of a luminaire housing. The first light source generates a light output. The luminaire also includes a trim component positioned at a second level of the luminaire housing different from the first level, The trim component includes a visual feedback element that emits a visual feedback response. Further, the luminaire includes a control circuit positioned at the second level within the trim component. The control circuit controls operation of the visual feedback element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Charles Jeffrey Spencer, Towfiq M. Chowdhury, Mohammad Bani Hani, Daniel Francis Posacki, Kyle Michael Bradd, Gregory Philip Frankiewicz, Feng Chen, John Glenn Serra, Darcie Renee Callison
  • Patent number: 11125424
    Abstract: A mounting system for suspending luminaires from a mounting surface with a cord. In some embodiments, the cord houses both the cable for supporting the luminaire in a suspended orientation as well as the electrical wires or connectors for electrically connecting the luminaire to a power source. In some embodiments, the mounting system is designed to ensure that the cable bears the entire weight of the luminaire and that the connectors bear no weight of the luminaire. The mounting system can include a pan that is mounted to the mounting surface and a rotatable joint positioned within the pan. The cord is attached to the rotatable joint. Rotation of the rotatable joint within the pan enables the cord to extend at nadir regardless of the angle of the mounting surface and without kinking of the cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Bryant James Deakins
  • Patent number: 11118779
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a speaker positioned at a first depth within a luminaire housing and capable of generating an audio output from a speaker diaphragm. The luminaire also includes a light source that generates a light output. Further, the luminaire includes a light guide assembly positioned at a second depth within the luminaire housing different from the first depth. The light guide assembly includes an acoustically transparent area positioned along a sound path from the speaker diaphragm, and the light guide assembly extracts the light output from the light source and directs the light output away from the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Charles Jeffrey Spencer, Daniel Francis Posacki, Kyle Michael Bradd, Gregory Philip Frankiewicz, Feng Chen, John Glenn Serra, Darcie Renee Callison
  • Patent number: 11118769
    Abstract: A wall-mounted lighting fixture includes a mounting plate, a canopy and an aiming assembly. The canopy is secured to a mounting plate mounted to a wall. The aiming assembly includes a disk, a tilting assembly, and a light emitting assembly. The canopy defines a circular recess which the disk is positioned flush within. The tilting assembly is coupled to the disk and the light emitting assembly, and includes a pivot joint, for example a hinge, allowing the light emitting assembly to tilt relative to the disk. The disk is rotatably coupled to the canopy allowing the light emitting assembly to rotate relative to the canopy, and therefore the wall. The tilting and rotation allow emitted light from the light emitting assembly to be aimed in two degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: James Sheehy, Douglas Dewayne Grove, Bruce Layne
  • Patent number: 11098880
    Abstract: A luminaire assembly includes a frame and a back plate. In some examples, the frame includes a lip, and the back plate includes a tab. The back plate is positionable within a housing area of the frame such that the tab is engaged with the lip and the back plate is retained within the frame. In other examples, a luminaire assembly includes a wireless module with an antenna positioned adjacent to a module opening of the back plate. The antenna provides wireless transmissions above the top side of the back plate and below the bottom side of the back plate. A luminaire support clip for a luminaire assembly includes a base and a tab. The tab and the base define a receiving area, and the luminaire support clip receives a portion of an edge of a back plate of the luminaire assembly within the receiving area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Robert Shaner, Travis Middleton, Jonathan Lemoine DeBow
  • Patent number: D929015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Paul W. Lewis, Jr., Eric O. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: D929031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Phillip Sieczkowski
  • Patent number: D932062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Brett S. Carlson, Jon Eric Gibson
  • Patent number: D938069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Brett S. Carlson, Jon Eric Gibson
  • Patent number: D940943
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Philip Sieczkowski