Patent ID: 8628229

Claim:
A modular illuminated frame member comprising: a channel element having a front member, a rear member, and a side member joining the front and rear members, where a distance between the front and rear members of the channel element is sized to be approximately equal to a thickness of a light guide assembly, and a modular light emitting diode (LED) lighting strip having two or more LED lighting modules, each LED lighting module having a substrate and a light emitting diode (LED) attached to the substrate, the LED lighting strip attached to the side member between the front and rear members wherein the LED lighting strip is adapted to set a distance between the LEDs on the two or more LED lighting modules and an edge of the light guide assembly by a spacer element mounted to the substrate of the LED lighting module, and wherein a length of the modular illuminated frame member is determined by the number of the two or more LED lighting modules present in the LED lighting strip.