US Patent Issued to Alliance Sports Group on March 17 for "Portable movement activated lighting system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,087, issued on March 17, was assigned to Alliance Sports Group LP (Roanoke, Texas).

"Portable movement activated lighting system" was invented by Clark McCune (Roanoke, Texas) and Todd Lee Marcucci (Mansfield, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light assembly is disposed about a core that is slidably and rotatably coupled to a frame. The frame has an interior volume that is shaped to receive the core therein. When the core is disposed within the frame, the light assembly is visible through the frame. In this manner, light propagated from the light assembly is propagated through an opening in the frame. The core can be moved long...