ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,141, issued on June 23, was assigned to Murrelektronik GmbH (Oppenweiler, Germany).

"Housing assembly with all-round visible luminous areas" was invented by Tim Roolf (Oppenweiler, Germany), Heiko Feisst (Oppenweiler, Germany), Jan Maier (Oppenweiler, Germany) and Henrik Ruf (Oppenweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing assembly for an electronic device, including a connection side on which at least one connection is provided, a first longitudinal side, a second longitudinal side, a first front side, and a second front side. The sides each have at least one housing wall. The housing assembly has at least two indicato...