ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,464, issued on April 14, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Housing structure with light emitting design" was invented by Hung-Chi Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Huei-Ting Chuang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Shun-Bin Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Meng-Chuan Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing structure, including a housing member, a light transmitting adhesive layer, and a light emitting module, is provided. The housing member has an appearance surface, an inner surface opposite to the appearance surface, and a light transmitting slot penetrating the appearance surface and th...