US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Front light for use with reflective displays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,757, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Front light for use with reflective displays" was invented by Miguel Virgen (San Jose, Calif.), Thomas R. Hoffend (San Ramon, Calif.), Xiaolong Zheng (Newark, Calif.), Ahmed Hassan (San Jose, Calif.), Nageswara Rao Tadepalli (San Jose, Calif.), Bin Hou (San Jose, Calif.) and Juho Ilkka Jalava (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods are provided for a front light for use with reflective displays. A display device (such as an e-reader, for example) may include a light source and a light guide able to receive first li...