Patent 7086759 was granted and assigned to Itc Incorporated / Elio Lighting on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A lamp includes a housing for a light emitter, e.g. a halogen bulb. The housing has a primary light outlet adjacent its forward end, and a peripheral wall having a plurality of secondary light-emitting openings. A light transmitting ring fixed on the housing has fingers covering the second openings. A retaining ring fixes a lens at the primary opening and to the light transmitting ring.