ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,928, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sirius Signal LLC.
"Visual distress signal device" was invented by Anthony W. Covelli (La Costa, Calif.) and Richard Harold Gunderson (Santee, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel lighting system and a method of operating the same. The marine vessel lighting system may include a marine vessel having a switch, a light device that is configured to be coupled to the marine vessel to electrically couple the light device to the switch, and a processor. The lighting system may be configured to operate such that upon the switch being actuated from an off state to an on state, the proce...