ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,101, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Wearable OLED illumination device" was invented by Michael Hack (Carmel, Calif.), Michael Stuart Weaver (Princeton, N.J.) and Julia J. Brown (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may provide a wearable device that includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) light source to output light. At least one emissive layer of the OLED light source of the wearable device may have a plurality of segments that are independently controllable to output the light at a duty cycle of less than 100%. The OLED light sourc...