ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,911, issued on July 1, was assigned to Himax Display Inc. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Display device including polarizing beam splitter, sub-reflective elements, reflective polarizer, and reflective display unit" was invented by Yuet-Wing Li (Tainan, Taiwan), Kuan-Yu Chen (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chi-Wen Lin (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the invention provides a display module including a plurality of light sources, a light guide plate, a reflective element, a reflective display unit, and a reflective polarizer. The light sources are configured to provide a plurality of illumination beams. The light guide plate ha...