ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,187, issued on March 25, was assigned to Promier Products Inc. (Peru, Ill.).

"Product packaging with internal lighting assembly" was invented by Matthew Allen-Tesch Pell (Plainfield, Ill.) and Cody D. Grandadam (Hennepin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product package or packaging is configured such that: (i) the product(s) are obscured from a potential buyer's view when the product package 10 is in a closed position and (ii) the product(s) becomes visible to the potential buyer when an extent of the product package is in a partially opened position. Once the product(s) becomes visible to the potential buyer, an illumination ...