ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,718, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).
"Illumination device" was invented by Daijiro Takano (Tokyo), Takeo Koito (Tokyo), Koichi Nagao (Tokyo), Takayuki Imai (Tokyo), Naoyuki Asano (Tokyo) and Daisuke Hamano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, an illumination device includes: two control substrates; two relay substrates electrically coupled to the two respective control substrates through respective wire harnesses; and four liquid crystal panels electrically coupled to the two relay substrates through flexible printed circuit boards. Four of the flexible printed circuit boards are ...