ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,518, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SUZHOU CRYSTALENT Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Wedge-shaped light guide plate for collimating backlight module, and collimating backlight module" was invented by Yulei Chen (Jiangsu, China), Peng Wu (Jiangsu, China) and Shujin Zhou (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a wedge-shaped light guide plate and a collimating backlight module. The wedge-shaped light guide plate includes an incident surface at a thick end, a first light-emitting surface, a second light-emitting surface and two side surfaces, wherein a wedge angle is formed between the first light-emitting surface ...