ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,697, issued on July 22, was assigned to Merry Electronics(Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (ShenZhen, China).
"Electronic device" was invented by Ching Tse Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chun-Han Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a casing including an annular light-emitting area, a plurality of directly-lit light sources, a light guide plate disposed between the directly-lit light sources and the annular light-emitting area, and a light-shielding rib structure located between the directly-lit light sources, and separating any two adjacent ones of the directly-lit light sources. The light guide plate ...