US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on July 15 for "Light guide member and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,317, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Light guide member and electronic equipment" was invented by Ryu Sannomiya (Tokyo) and Takeshi Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a light guide member including a light-receiving section having a light-receiving surface for receiving light of a light-emitting component, a first light guide section extending in a first extension direction from the light-receiving section, two second light guide sections branching out from the first light guide section, and two light radiation surfaces for externally emitting light gu...