Patents Examined by Christopher E Dunay
  • Patent number: 12644583
    Abstract: A light holding system is provided, especially suited for use in or on an RV and/or with LED light strips, having a retention strip and a light holder strip, those paired elements being interfit and interlocking via nesting of a recess, groove, or channel in each, the light holder channel being formed to releasably retain a LED light strip, and the light holder having laterally extending wings or flanges which overlay the retention strip at least in part (and any panel edge located by the retention strip). The system supports use of alternative light holder strips configured to provide greater spacing between the retention strip and the light holder strip, according to the use of a panel therebetween and/or the mounting location of the system to the vehicle, via different location and dimensioning of the interlocking elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Inventor: Qing Yuan
  • Patent number: 12638156
    Abstract: A lighting fixture includes a light source, an exit lens, and an XY beam manipulating system coupled to the exit lens. The XY beam manipulating system is configured to move the exit lens within a plane and with two degrees of freedom, thereby causing an exiting light beam of the lighting fixture to move in accordance with a selected movement pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Harman Professional Denmark APS
    Inventor: Niels Jørgen Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 12631814
    Abstract: A backlight module is disclosed, which includes a light source, a light guide plate, an optical film layer and a light guide device. The light guide plate has a light incident edge and a first side. The light incident edge is configured towards the light source and receives light from the light source. The first side extends along the direction transverse to the light incident edge from one end of the light incident edge. The optical film layer is disposed on the light guide plate. The light guide device is disposed to extend along the first side, and the light guide device has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion faces towards the light source and receives light from the light source. The second portion corresponds to the distant end of the first side that is opposite to the light incident edge and located on the surface of the light guide device opposite to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Darwin Precisions Corporation
    Inventor: Wen-Huan Lin
  • Patent number: 12631303
    Abstract: In one aspect, optical elements and luminaires employing optical elements are described herein. In some embodiments, an optical element comprises a planar light transmissive body comprising a light input surface and a light output surface opposite the input surface, and light redirection features arranged over the light input surface and the light output surface, the light redirection features comprising refractive facets, reflective facets, facets supporting total internal reflection within the planar light transmissive body, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: CREE LIGHTING USA LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Wilcox, Jin Hong Lim, Curt Progl, Steve Wilcenski, Zongjie Yuan
  • Patent number: 12631309
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source unit generating light; a first lens unit including an emission surface to emit the light and at least one reflective surface to reflect the light toward the emission surface; and a deposit layer provided on the at least one reflective surface to reflect the light from the light source unit. A vehicle lamp includes a light source unit generating light; a first lens unit including an outer lens unit that includes an emission surface formed as a closed-loop structure to emit the light, and a reflective surface to reflect the light toward the emission surface, and an inner lens unit along an inner periphery of the emission surface to face the reflective surface; and a deposit layer provided on the reflective surface and/or the inner lens unit to reflect the light from the light source unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: SL Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Gyu Lee, Jong Ryoul Park, Andrew P. Evans
  • Patent number: 12624809
    Abstract: A luminaire that produces two beams of light. First of light is generated and output, as a first light beam, from a first chamber of the luminaire. Second light is generated and output from a second chamber into a third chamber via an elongate component that performs beamshaping on the second light. The beamshaped second light is output from the third chamber as a second beam of light. An elongate component holder holds or supports the elongate component and provides at least part of the bounds for the first and second chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Johannes Martinus Bukkems, Erik Paul Boonekamp, Marcus Cornelis Van Meel
  • Patent number: 12623593
    Abstract: Disclosed is a direct lighting with a light guide for a vehicle room, including: a light source; a light guide transferring light from the light source; a housing accommodating the light guide therein and mounted on a vehicle internal structure; and a slit formed in the vehicle internal structure, and the light guide may have at least some portion inserted into the slit and exposed to a front surface of the vehicle internal structure, and the exposed portion may be formed to directly emit light from the light source. Therefore, there is an effect of saving the manufacturing cost as the quantity of parts are reduced by integrally designing the lens and the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: ECOPLASTIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eung Joo Kim, Seong Gil Jeong, Hyun Cheol Jang
  • Patent number: 12626129
    Abstract: A method and a non-transitory computer readable medium for performing a calculation in a neural network comprise: accepting a data set into the neural network; performing a calculations with the neural network using the data set, wherein the calculations use a loss function and provide an aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty that is correlated to a value; and displaying results of the calculations performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ravinath Kausik Kadayam Viswanathan, Lalitha Venkataramanan, Andras Szep, Lucas Pelegrin
  • Patent number: 12618635
    Abstract: A weapon emulator has a muzzle flash emulator attachment coupled to a first end of a barrel. The muzzle flash emulator attachment includes: a body defining a plurality of slots, a cover disposed in the body, a light source at least partially disposed in the cover, and a circuit coupled to the light source and including a power source and a switch. The switch is transitionable from an open state to a closed state to turn on the light source in response to pulling a trigger. In another embodiment, a muzzle flash emulator assembly includes a magnet operatively aligned with a reed switch. In a further embodiment, a muzzle flash emulator has a member coupled to a barrel and moveable to strike the switch in response to pulling the trigger to transition the switch from the open state to the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: OBSIDIAN DYNAMICS, LLC
    Inventors: Mike Casey, Thomas Melton
  • Patent number: 12613019
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source mounting board mounted with a multi-segment LED array, a control circuit board mounted with a circuit for controlling light emission of the multi-segment LED array, and a projection lens that deflects light emitted from the multi-segment LED array. The light source mounting board and the control circuit board are disposed to be integrated together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuma Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 12613442
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display panel; an outer case coupled to an outer side of the inner case; a printed circuit board defining an upper surface, a lower surface, and a through-hole; a plurality of light sources configured to emit light to the display panel; and a connector inserted in the through-hole. The connector includes: a connector body inserted in the through-hole and defining a first side surface and a second side surface; and a plurality of connector terminals on the upper surface and configured to electrically connect the connector body to a portion of the printed circuit board. A first surface portion of the upper surface is adjacent to the first side surface, a second surface portion of the upper surface is adjacent to the second side surface, and the plurality of connector terminals are configured to electrically connect the first surface portion to the second surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngmin Lee, Jaewoo Kim, Seungyong Shin, Hyukjun Jang
  • Patent number: 12612749
    Abstract: The safety barricade system for use with metal grate flooring may include a stanchion, one or more retainers, and a warning light. The bottom of the stanchion may detachably couple to a metal grate includes a floor and may be held in place by the one or more retainers. The stanchion may be vertically-oriented such that the top of the stanchion is elevated above the metal grate, placing the top of the stanchion within the cone of vision of a user. The stanchions may be used individually to designate a position. The stanchions may be used in groups and in conjunction with caution tape to designate a boundary. The warning light located at the top of the stanchion may be illuminated to increase the visual awareness of the stanchion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Inventor: Anthony Eugene Carnathan
  • Patent number: 12613369
    Abstract: A light emitting emblem, including: a light source; a light guide that guides light irradiated from the light source; and an outer lens that emits light by transmitting light irradiated from the light guide, wherein: the light guide is provided with a first reflection face that reflects light from the light source passing through an inner peripheral portion of the light guide for transmission through an inner peripheral portion of the outer lens, and a second reflection face that is provided at a position different from that of the first reflection face and that reflects light from the light source passing through an outer peripheral portion of the light guide for transmission through an outer peripheral portion of the outer lens; the light guide is provided with a tapered face; and the tapered face configures the first reflection face and the second reflection face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Tomomi Hattori
  • Patent number: 12607322
    Abstract: An aircraft light comprises an arrangement of a plurality of light sources, arranged on a light source support, and a light guide arranged for receiving and transmitting light emitted by the plurality of light sources. The light guide comprises an optical fiber; a coupling portion provided at an input end of the optical fiber facing the plurality of light sources, the coupling portion comprising a plurality of legs, with each of the plurality of legs extending between the input end of the optical fiber and a respective one of the plurality of light sources; and a light exit portion, providing light received and transmitted from the plurality of light sources at a light head of the aircraft light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Carsten Pawliczek, Anil Kumar Jha, Marion Depta, Andre Hessling-von Heimendahl
  • Patent number: 12607905
    Abstract: A book-light for illuminating photo and film scenes with soft illumination light, comprising: a three-dimensional structure having a rectangular first face and a rectangular second face; wherein the rectangular first face is configured for attachment of a lamp, and wherein the first face includes a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge; wherein the rectangular second face includes a first edge extending adjacent to the first edge of the first face and along the first edge of the first face, and a second edge opposite the first edge, and wherein an inner surface of the second face is provided by a material that is configured to diffusely reflect light incident on the inner surface of the second face; and wherein the book-light further comprises at least one inflatable tube extending between the second edge of the first face and the second edge of the second face and which, in its inflated state, holds the second edge of the first face at a distance from the second edge of the second face, so tha
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Inventor: Stefan Karle
  • Patent number: 12607315
    Abstract: Disclosed is a projection lamp capable of creating a floating or fluttering-like effect, including a housing, a front cover, a core assembly, and a film disk assembly. The core assembly is installed inside the housing. The front cover covers one end of the housing. A first glass sheet is arranged in a middle portion of the front cover. The core assembly includes a third-lens bracket, a third lens, a water ripple sheet, a cover plate, a film holder, a second lens, a first lens, a travel switch, a lamp board bracket, a lamp board, a motor, a control board, and the film disk assembly. According to the utility model, the water ripple sheet is driven to do a reciprocating motion, and when passing through the water ripple sheet, light is refracted in different directions, so that a projected image presents a floating or fluttering-like dynamic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN YONG QI ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shaoqi Ji
  • Patent number: 12607795
    Abstract: An optical device includes a light guide and a holding member to constitute a light guide unit having a corner and a corner extended outer surface. The corner extended outer surface includes a curved surface that has a radius of curvature of a predetermined standard value or more. A louver is arranged such that an imaginary spherical shape is spaced apart from prisms of the light guide in a state where the imaginary spherical shape is closest to the prisms while being in contact with the louver and the corner extended outer surface without intersecting with blades of the louver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MIRISE Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Masaaki Kawauchi, Kojiro Tachi, Masatoshi Tsuji, Heng Liu, Ryusuke Ohta
  • Patent number: 12602568
    Abstract: This application provides a born-again TSK fuzzy classifier based on knowledge distillation. The born-again TSK fuzzy classifier based on knowledge distillation is denoted as CNNBaTSK, and a fuzzy rule of CNNBaTSK includes two parts: an antecedent part based on soft label information and a consequent part based on original data. A method for constructing the fuzzy rule of CNNBaTSK includes following steps: Step 1: taking, by the CNNBaTSK, the original data as input, obtaining a probability distribution of an output layer through a layer-by-layer neural expression, and introducing a distillation temperature to generate soft label information of DATASET; Step 2: partitioning the soft label information into five fixed fuzzy partitions to construct the fuzzy rule in a fuzzy part of the CNNBaTSK; Step 3: introducing the original data to calculate a consequent parameter, and optimizing the consequent parameter of CNNBaTSK using a non-iterative learning method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Huzhou University
    Inventors: Yunliang Jiang, Xiongtao Zhang, Jungang Lou, Qing Shen, Jiangwei Weng
  • Patent number: 12601468
    Abstract: The present invention is a trim device designed to enhance LED strip lights. The trim device is molded into various cross-sectional shapes and comprises an open or a translucent/opaque additional side. It is made of a flexible material, such as rubber or silicone, and features an outer section for attachment to surfaces. The trim accessory device effectively houses and conceals LED strip lights while allowing light to escape and reflect onto adjacent surfaces, resulting in a visually pleasing and evenly dispersed glow. Its sleek and unobtrusive design makes it suitable for various indoor and outdoor lighting installations, architectural accents, and decorative lighting arrangements. The trim device is easily customizable, simple to install, and capable of housing LED strip lights of various sizes and configurations. By diffusing direct glare and accentuating the LED glow, it adds elegance and functionality to LED strip light installations while maintaining a visually appealing ambiance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Inventor: Maxim Isaac
  • Patent number: 12601458
    Abstract: A lamp (1) for a vehicle, which lamp (1) has an image generator (2), a projection system (3) and an adaptive aperture device (4), wherein the aperture device (4) has a first opening (5) in a first plane (6) and a second opening (7) in a second plane (8) along the beam path, wherein, during operation of the lamp (1), a beam (20) is reduced through the first opening (5) to a first portion of the beam and this first portion is reduced through the second opening (7) to a residual portion of the beam (20), wherein the first opening (5) in the first plane (6) and the second opening (7) in the second plane (8) are displaceable relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Jackl, Lars Amundsson