US 12,346,170 B1
Technologies for illumination of input/output ports on a compute device
Smit Kapila, Bangalore (IN); Varshini Ajjampur Vijayakumar, Bangalore (IN); Prakash Kurma Raju, Bangalore (IN); Jeff Ku, Taipei (TW); and Sean J. W. Lawrence, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/399,495.
Int. Cl. G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1656 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1662 (2013.01); G06F 3/02 (2013.01); G06F 1/1616 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a chassis for a compute device, wherein one or more first openings are defined in a side surface of the chassis, wherein the one or more first openings are to provide access to one or more input/output ports, wherein one or more sets of second openings are defined in the side surface, wherein individual sets of second openings of the one or more sets of second openings are arranged around one of the one or more first openings;
one or more light-emitting diodes, wherein, when activated, light from the one or more light-emitting diodes passes through the one or more sets of second openings; and
a plurality of transparent inserts, wherein the plurality of transparent inserts are to deflect light passing through the one or more sets of second openings.