The modular headquarters of the Organizing Committee  for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games  is the first commercial building in Brazil to adopt GE Lighting’s Lumination™ ET Series Recessed LED Troffer, an ultra-thin fixture as thin as the width of a finger that brings modern styling to traditionally uninspired commercial ceiling spaces.

GE Lighting Solutions, part of the GE -- Appliances & Lighting business unit of General Electric Company, has announced the settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit filed in May 2010 against Dongbu Lightec, formerly Fawoo Technology. The settlement terminates a pending action before the court regarding allegations of Dongbu Lightec's infringements of US Patents 6,799,864 and 6,787,999 that cover, among other things, LED lamp heat sink designs and systems and methods for efficiently replacing existing lamps with such designs. The specific terms of th...