ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,805, issued on June 30, was assigned to BRITE-LITER INC. (Hughesville, Pa.).

"Method and device for literacy development" was invented by Benjamin Kranz (Hughesville, Pa.), David Boyle (Montoursville, Pa.), Michael Dubinovsky (Mesa, Ariz.), Ashley N Patterson (State College, Pa.), Shari B Michael (Hughesville, Pa.), Igor G. Kajun (Dnepr, Ukraine) and Anton Tkachenko (Boryspil, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A literacy development device includes a light source that provides a general white illumination area and an adjustable light within the illumination area, both from the same light source. The adjustable light can be chang...