Super Vision purchased this patent from High End Systems to provide open access to the industry for intellectual property rights in the production and sale of colour-changing LED systems. Advanced Lighting specializes in the manufacture of fibre optic and LED lighting products for the architectural and entertainment industry.
Paul Streitz, president of ASLI: "Super Vision's making available the '687' patent to leading lighting manufacturers will help the LED industry move forward more freely with newer technology that will ultimately provide better products and services for our valuable end users. I am very enthused about ALSI's future in LED technology and appreciate the fair licensing agreement that Supervision has provided ALSI and our industry."
Bill Little, chief technology officer of ALSI: "The modern digital lighting industry illustrates the historical impact of early colour mixing luminaires, including those controlled across a network. The Belliveau patent is an encompassing piece of intellectual property, a forefather of current digital lighting technologies ALSI recently released the performance-based LiveLED 100, manufactured under this license. The LiveLED 100 is capable of projecting distances up to 100ft (30m) and sets a benchmark for performance-based digital lighting."
"Advanced Lighting has been a respected competitor in the field of fibre optic lighting for more than a decade and more recently in LED lighting," said Brett Kingstone, Super Vision's president and CEO. "The fact that even direct competitors have now banded together to cooperate on intellectual property in order to support a free and open market is very significant and bodes well for the future of our industry."
Mike Bauer, Super Vision's VP of sales and marketing, further underscored the importance of this license by stating: "This agreement re-affirms the strength of our patent portfolio and demonstrates our willingness to license this technology to other lighting companies."
(Lee Baldock)
