US Patent Issued to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS on May 20 for "Method of making thin light guide illumination systems using side-emitting LEDs" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,432, issued on May 20, was assigned to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS INC. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Method of making thin light guide illumination systems using side-emitting LEDs" was invented by Sergiy Victorovich Vasylyev (Elk Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a thin waveguide illumination system using side-emitting LED packages is disclosed. The method includes providing an optically transmissive sheet with first and second broad-area surfaces, a light coupling area near the first edge, and a two-dimensional light extraction area on at least one of these surfaces. This light extraction area includes a p...