ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,068, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Sub-surface indicator lighting" was invented by Nathan Isaacson (North Sydney, Australia) and Jan Patrick Frieding (Grose Vale, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are devices/apparatuses having indicator lights (visual indicators), such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), positioned underneath/below the outer surface of a housing of the device. However, the indicator lights positioned below the outer surface of the housing, sometimes referred to herein as "sub-surface" or "sub-housing" indicator lights, are optically coupled t...