US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on April 29 for "Cargo area lighting and monitoring" (South Carolina, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,237, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Cargo area lighting and monitoring" was invented by Raquel A. Faulkner (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Nathan Bennett (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting and monitoring module is disclosed herein. The lighting and monitoring module includes a module body including a front surface and a back surface, the module body defining a space between the front surface and the back surface, a connector disposed within the space defined by the module body, a light disposed within the space defined by the module body, the light coupled to the connector, a...