US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 16 for "Surface light-emitting device, display device, and illumination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,756, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Surface light-emitting device, display device, and illumination device" was invented by Wahei Agemizu (Osaka, Japan) and Kazumasa Takata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface light-emitting device includes a plurality of light sources, a light guide that guides light emitted from the plurality of light sources, and a controller that controls turn-on operations of the plurality of light sources. The light guide includes a plurality of light controllers on which the light from the plurality of light sources ar...