ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,224, issued on March 18, was assigned to TMRW FOUNDATION IP S.AR.L. (Luxembourg).

"Multifunctional interactive illumination apparatus" was invented by Cevat Yerli (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and Neva Yerli (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive illumination apparatus and methods and systems for executing functions of the interactive illumination apparatus are disclosed. The interactive illumination apparatus includes a housing, a light emitting device arranged on a first end of the housing, a first button on the housing configured to detect a first input, a touch input device on the housing conf...