ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,186, issued on April 22, was assigned to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS INC. (Sacramento, Calif.).
"Multi-waveguide illumination panel" was invented by Sergiy Vasylyev (Elk Grove, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system having a base sheet and at least two planar optical waveguides attached to a back surface of the base sheet at different locations and each having light extraction structures. Each waveguide is optically coupled to an LED source at its edge and is configured to emit light towards the base sheet. Various embodiments incorporate flexibility of the base sheet, variable densities of the light extraction...