US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on May 20 for "Compound backlight with edge lighting" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,494, issued on May 20, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Compound backlight with edge lighting" was invented by Scott Piecuch (Seattle), Nobuyuki Suzuki (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ying Zheng (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display devices, display systems, backlight assemblies, and methods described herein provide compound backlights with edge lighting. In an aspect, the backlight includes a waveguide, first lights, and an array layer. The first lights are arranged along an edge of the waveguide. Each of the first lights transmits light into the waveguide. The array layer is coupled to ...