ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,470, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Murrelektronik GmbH (Oppenweiler, Germany).

"Electrical device having an indicator light" was invented by Tim Roolf (Oppenweiler, Germany), Heiko FeiBt (Oppenweiler, Germany) and Henrik Ruf (Oppenweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical device with an indicator light includes a housing and a light source which is arranged in the housing and is set up to couple light into a housing wall of the housing, which propagates through the material of the housing wall to a light-decoupling part of the housing. The light emitted by the light source can exit the housing through the ligh...