ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,907, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Wide color gamut enabled edge-lit BLU for high PPI VR-LCD display" was invented by Shenglin Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xinyu Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Rungrot Kitsomboonloha (Los Gatos, Calif.), Cheonhong Kim (Mountain View, Calif.), Sascha Hallstein (Saratoga, Calif.), Wook Jin Han (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ruiqing Ma (Kirkland, Wash.), Xiangtong Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Yu-Jen Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal display panel for near-eye display comprises a liquid crystal (LC) panel and a backlight unit (BLU)....