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Article: New York Inventors Develop Light-Emitting Diode Lighting Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 3, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Vernon C Mcdermott of Middle Village, N.Y., and Vernon McDermott Jr. of Sands Point, N.Y., have developed a lighting device.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device having one or more pair of side-emitting light-emitting diodes arranged end-to-end, one 'flipped' relative to the other, such that the beam spreads of the LEDs complement one another and increase the overall beam spread of the device, or instead the intensity of the beam about a narrow angle."
The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,357,533 on April 15.
The original application was filed on April 20, 2006, ...