Company overview. Savant Technologies LLC, doing business as GE Lighting ("GE Lighting, a Savant company"), is a privately held lighting manufacturer headquartered at historic NELA Park in East Cleveland, Ohio. The business traces to GE's lighting division (founded 1911, with roots in Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp), which was sold by General Electric to smart-home company Savant Systems, Inc. (Hyannis, Massachusetts) in a deal announced May 27, 2020 and closed July 1, 2020; press reports at the time put the price at roughly $250 million. About 700 employees transferred to Savant at closing, making Savant Technologies a subsidiary of the private, PE-backed Savant Systems. Revenue figures are not public.
Products / operations. Savant Technologies designs, sources, and sells consumer lighting: LED and filament lamps, fixtures and switches, plus smart lighting products (connected bulbs, plugs, switches, and color strips historically sold under the "C by GE" line). It operates under a long-term license of the GE brand from General Electric. It is a genuine operating company with manufacturing and retail distribution, not a patent-assertion entity.
Patent-litigation posture. Savant is an operating company engaged in a single, active two-way dispute with competitor Feit Electric Company over white-LED-filament bulb technology. The case data show one defendant appearance — Feit Electric Company, Inc. v. Savant Technologies LLC d/b/a GE Lighting, No. 1:24-cv-00473 (N.D. Ohio, filed March 13, 2024), alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,604,678 ("Wavelength Conversion Component with a Diffusing Layer") and targeting GE's LED Pearl Filament bulbs — and one plaintiff appearance: Savant Technologies LLC d/b/a GE Lighting et al. v. Feit Electric Company, Inc., IPR2025-00260 (PTAB, filed December 9, 2024), an inter partes review petition challenging the same patent. The venue is the Northern District of Ohio, not a plaintiff-friendly patent hotspot.
Notable context. The N.D. Ohio case was stayed in April 2025 pending the PTAB proceeding, which the Board instituted on June 23, 2025 and consolidated with a related IPR (IPR2024-01357) that Savant filed jointly with LEDVANCE. The December 2024 petition added Elong International USA and Xiamen Longstar as co-petitioners. The dispute sits within Feit's broader enforcement campaign over white LED filament technology, which also targets LEDVANCE and others.