US Patent Issued to WHELEN ENGINEERING on July 29 for "Vehicle lighting system using light channels" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,218, issued on July 29, was assigned to WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY INC. (Chester, Conn.).

"Vehicle lighting system using light channels" was invented by Todd Smith (Deep River, Conn.), Sean Brown (Berlin, Conn.) and Gavin Shepherdson (Stonington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightbar with additional periphery lights for further functionality. The periphery lights can be operated through LEDs positioned behind the primary emergency lights of the lightbar. The LEDs can transmit light through a light transmissive material to the periphery. These periphery lights can be operated independently of the primary emergency lights to ...