US Patent Issued to WUXI CLEARLINK on Jan. 13 for "Driving methods for TIR-based image displays" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,914, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to WUXI CLEARLINK Ltd. (Wuxi, China).

"Driving methods for TIR-based image displays" was invented by Thomas Johansson (Coquitlam, Calif.), Vivek Porush (Milpitas, Canada), Graham Beales (Vancouver, Canada) and Peter T. Kazlas (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical states in TIR-based image displays may be modulated by movement of electrophoretically mobile particles into and out of the evanescent wave region at the interface of a high refractive index convex protrusions and a low refractive index medium. The movement of particles into the evanescent wave region may frustrate TIR an...