ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,468, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Construction" was invented by Kozo Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Yufeng Weng (Osaka, Japan) and Taishi Ogawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction according to the invention is a construction including a framework formed by first framework members and second framework members, and panels held by the framework. One or more of the panels can transmit visible light. One or more of the panels that can transmit visible light is a lighting device. The lighting device includes a light source, and a light guide that can transmit visible light and incl...