US RE49,779 E1
Flexible lighting apparatus
Peter R. Girolami, Palisades, NY (US); and Joseph M. DeJoia, Blauvelt, NY (US)
Assigned to Sourcemaker, Inc., Valley Cottage, NY (US)
Filed by Sourcemaker, Inc., Valley Cottage, NY (US)
Filed on May 16, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/414,227.
Application 16/414,227 is a reissue of application No. 14/616,243, filed on Feb. 6, 2015, granted, now 9,651,230, issued on May 16, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/937,406, filed on Feb. 7, 2014.
Int. Cl. F21V 21/14 (2006.01); F21V 23/06 (2006.01); G03B 15/02 (2021.01); F21V 19/00 (2006.01); F21V 21/005 (2006.01); F21L 14/02 (2006.01); F21V 17/00 (2006.01); F21S 4/10 (2016.01); F21Y 113/00 (2016.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC F21V 21/145 (2013.01) [F21L 14/023 (2013.01); F21V 17/007 (2013.01); F21V 19/0025 (2013.01); F21V 21/005 (2013.01); F21V 23/06 (2013.01); G03B 15/02 (2013.01); F21S 4/10 (2016.01); F21Y 2113/00 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lighting apparatus, comprising:
a blanket-like body having a plurality of pockets;
a detachable wiring harness having at least three separate wiring channels and a plurality of three-prong connectors [ each having at least three prongs] , said wiring harness attached to said blanket-like body, each of said wiring channels embodying an electrically conductive wire coupled to a power source, each of said wiring channels constructed with a plurality of openings providing electrical access points along the length of said wiring harness, and each three-prong [ prong of a ] connector coupled to said [ a separate ] electrically conductive wire embodied in each of said three separate wiring channels via said plurality of openings; and
a light emitting diode (LED) arrangement embodied within each of said plurality of pockets, each said LED arrangement electrically coupled to said power source independent of another said LED arrangement via said plurality of three-prong connectors [ , wherein said LED arrangement is a color corrected lighting strip comprising a plurality of LED-driven lighting elements having at least two alternating color temperatures] .