US Patent Issued to Flex-N-Gate Advanced Product Development on Aug. 11 for "Variable light pipe illumination width levels" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,228, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Flex-N-Gate Advanced Product Development LLC (Windsor, Canada).

"Variable light pipe illumination width levels" was invented by Todd Nykerk (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lit light pipe apparatus comprises several elements: at least two light sources, at least two clear diffusion sheets, a mask, and a light pipe. An edge of each of the clear diffusion sheets is aligned with one of the arrays of light sources to provide independent edge lighting of each diffusion sheet. Each clear diffusion sheet emits a homogeneous light through its facade. The mask is aligned with the facades...