It’s a simple idea, one maybe you even thought of. But it took Shane Jacobson and a co-worker to pursue it: an aluminum ring that fits perfectly in a manhole opening with a set of LEDs to brightly light the work area.“Driving home from a job one night, Paul Lewis mentioned that it would be nice if someone made a light ring so we wouldn’t have to stand there with a flashlight,” says Jacobson.A quick check revealed that nobody else made one, so they invented the Light Ring. With the help of Jacobson’s cousin, Gavin Gross, they patented the invention
