ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,787, issued on April 22, was assigned to Chicony Power Technology Co. Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Adapter with illuminated icon" was invented by Tsai-Liang Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hung-Yueh Hsiao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsuan-Wei Ho (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter includes an enclosure, a circuit module, a shielding element, a control module, a backlight module, and a masking element. The circuit module and the control module are arranged in the accommodating slot of the enclosure. The shielding element covers the circuit module and the control module is connected to the circuit module. The backlight m...