ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,108, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Display having controllable laser light sources and controllable light guide" was invented by Petri Savolainen (Espoo, Finland), Urho Konttori (Helsinki), Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland) and Mikko Juhola (Muurla, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes laser light sources of different colours and at least one light guide. The at least one light guide includes a light outlet including a plurality of exit portions, and is controllable to sequentially guide light rays emitted by the laser light sources towards different exit porti...