US Patent Issued to Intel on July 1 for "Technologies for illumination of input/output ports on a compute device" (Indian, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,170, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for illumination of input/output ports on a compute device" was invented by Smit Kapila (Bangalore, India), Varshini Ajjampur Vijayakumar (Bangalore, India), Prakash Kurma Raju (Bangalore, India), Jeff Ku (Taipei, Taiwan) and Sean J. W. Lawrence (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for illumination of input/output (I/O) ports on a compute device are disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment, microholes are defined in a chassis around an opening in the chassis for an I/O port. A light-emitting diode (LED) contained within the c...