US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 1 for "Building control device with a light guide configured for uniformly illuminating a graphical symbol that is visible to a user of the building control device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,936, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Building control device with a light guide configured for uniformly illuminating a graphical symbol that is visible to a user of the building control device" was invented by Chao Chen (Beijing), Tonya Tang (Beijing), Rick Han (Tianjin, China), Lily Zhao (Tianjin, China), Qixiang Hu (Tianjin, China), Harvey Ma (Tianjin, China) and Helen Yan (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building control device includes a printed circuit board including control circuitry for controlling at least part of the building control device. An LCD display i...