US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on April 1 for "Multi-functional optical illuminators" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,879, issued on April 1, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Multi-functional optical illuminators" was invented by Chen Feng (Snohomish, Wash.), Jie Ren (SuZhou, China) and Yunxin Ouyang (SuZhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single piece light pipe is designed to provide dual-field, multi-color, multi-directional illumination. The light pipe is combined with a single PCB having a plurality of LEDs to create a compact illuminator that can selectively provide dark field and bright field with red, green, blue color, broad spectrum, or combination of any color in horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or combin...