ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,796, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BJB GmbH & Co. KG (Arnsberg, Germany).
"Appliance light" was invented by Philipp Henrici (Arnsberg, Germany), Olaf Baumeister (Sundern, Germany) and Joerg Harnischmacher (Menden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance light including an illuminant formed by a circuit board and a LED arranged on the circuit board; a light conductor rod including a light entry surface for light emitted by the LED; a holder including a circuit board receiver arranged on a bottom side of the holder, a fixing element arranged on a top side of the holder opposite to the bottom side and configured to receiv...