US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on March 25 for "Backlight apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,615, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Backlight apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus" was invented by Satsuki Hagihara (Kameyama, Japan), Kazuhiko Negoro (Kameyama, Japan), Mayumi Hori (Kameyama, Japan) and Kenichi Iwamoto (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight apparatus includes an LED substrate having a principal surface over which a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit excitation light are arrayed, a phosphor layer containing a phosphor that emits fluorescence upon receiving the excitation light, a wavelength-selective reflecting layer ...