ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,273, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hella Saturnus Slovenija d.o.o. (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

"System for backlighting a radome and radar device" was invented by Nejc Jezersek (Domzale, Slovenia), Alenka Bajec Strle (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Tomaz Stajner (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Andraz Tekavcic (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Andrej Wagner (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for backlighting a radome. The radome includes a translucent section and an opaque section. The translucent section is translucent to visible light and the opaque section is opaque to visible light. At least one light source of visible...