US Patent Issued to L.E.S.S. on Oct. 6 for "Optical waveguide-based side illuminating assembly, elongated reinforcing structure, and receptacle" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,359, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to L.E.S.S. Ltd (Renens, Switzerland).

"Optical waveguide-based side illuminating assembly, elongated reinforcing structure, and receptacle" was invented by Yann Tissot (Chigny, Switzerland), Ludovic Pierre (Arc-sur-Tille, France) and Magalie Matray (St-Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical waveguide based side illuminating assembly having an elongated, side-emitting light waveguide, an optical protective coating surrounding the waveguide, an elongated base to which the waveguide is attached lengthwise along the elongated base, via the optical protective coating, a reflector...