ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,060, issued on March 24, was assigned to AmTRAN Technology Co. Ltd. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Light-emitting headphone stand its columnar illumination component" was invented by Ming Chih Yu (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A columnar illumination component includes a columnar body and a light-emitting component. The columnar body has two first side portions, and two second side portions. Each of the first side portions is adjoined to the second side portions, each of the second side portions is adjoined to the first side portions, and an elongated channel is jointly defined by the first side portions and the se...