US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Aug. 4 for "Display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,070, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Seiki Sugisawa (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Nahoko Sakamoto (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Takayuki Hirano (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Takashi Sato (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device has a panel having a display, a plurality of light sources and light guiding bodies provided side by side below the rear surface of the panel, and a case having holding spaces provided side by side below the rear surface of the panel, one light source and one light guiding body being placed in each of the plurality of holding spaces. The plurali...