ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,884, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HTI Technology and Industries Inc. (Peabody, Mass.).

"Method and system for providing illumination" was invented by John Simonetti (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Steve Sweeney (Beverly, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an illumination system comprising a polymer piece, a Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), or Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) and one or more Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The PCBA may be located behind the polymer piece and may include one or more LEDs. The PCBA can control LEDs and direct certain LEDs to illuminate the polymer piece."

The patent was filed on Feb. 14, 202...