US Patent Issued to Qisda on July 29 for "Illumination module" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,217, issued on July 29, was assigned to Qisda Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Illumination module" was invented by Chao-Shun Yu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Cheng-Chieh Juan (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wen-Chang Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chun-Sheng Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination module includes a light source configured to emit an illumination light beam, a reflective light valve disposed on a path of the illumination light beam and configured to form a plurality of pixels, a lens, and an image sensing module. Each pixel is adapted to be switched between a first state and a second state. The pixels in the first state amon...