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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
May. 22, 2015
Ilight Technologies, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Sean Edward Callahan, Elmhurst, IL (US);
James Cuppini, West Chicago, IL (US);
Mark Joseph Cleaver, Chicago, IL (US);
Timothy Edward Canzano, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Edward Wayted Chen, Chicago, IL (US);
Elizabeth Marie Randgaard, Evanston, IL (US);
Chad Glenn Kirschner, West Dundee, IL (US);
Stephen Michael Oshgan, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Paresh Shroff, Palatine, IL (US);
Joseph Z. Wascow, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Nicholas Patrick Jackson, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Brian Alan Retzke, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Daniel John Williams, Chciago, IL (US);
iLight Technologies, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A physically-discrete sign component comprises an internally-electrically-illuminated alphabetic character having a front-facing profile and at least one connecting bar disposed at least substantially horizontally with respect to the front-facing profile of the alphabetic character and at least partially within the front-facing profile of that alphabetic character. By one approach the physically-discrete sign component includes two of the connecting bars. If desired, these two connecting bars are disposed at least substantially parallel to one another. By one approach, a first one of the connecting bars extends partially, but not wholly, above an upper periphery of the aforementioned front-facing profile while the second connecting bar extends partially, but not wholly, below a lower periphery of the front-facing profile. The connecting bars can include a connecting-bar interface configured to physically and electrically interconnect to an adjacent sign component.