US Patent Issued to Brightview Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Microstructures for transforming light having lambertian distribution into batwing distributions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,474, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Brightview Technologies Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Microstructures for transforming light having lambertian distribution into batwing distributions" was invented by Bing Shen (Cary, N.C.), Ken G. Purchase (Morrisville, N.C.), Thomas A. Rinehart (Durham, N.C.) and John W. Wilson (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light transmissive substrate that transforms light having a Lambertian distribution includes a substrate having a plurality of microstructures on a first surface, where each of the plurality of microstructures comprises an array of folded micro-pyramid microstructures, wherein ea...