ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,804, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus provided with lighting device and panel member provided with lighting device" was invented by Masaaki Takenouchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus provided with a lighting device, including a lighting device disposed along a first face of the apparatus, an in-line portion that is at a position in line with the lighting device, and an exposing portion that is provided at the in-line portion and that exposes an end face of the lighting device."

The patent was filed on Aug. 1, 2022, under Application No. 18/579,511.

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