ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,567, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Energy-efficient control of indicator lighting" was invented by Lei Wang (Chengdu, China), Yong Lu (Chengdu, China) and Rongbin Zhang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include a processor, at least one visual indicator communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to visually indicate status information associated with the information handling system, and a motion sensor communicatively coupled to the at least one visual indicator and configured to detect for a presence of motion proximate to the info...