ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,782, issued on April 14, was assigned to Daktronics Inc. (Brookings, S.D.).
"Molded contrast mask for display module" was invented by Ryan Joseph Nielsen (Volga, S.D.), Gregory Lynn Rauen (Brookings, S.D.) and Matthew Craig Buisker (Brookings, S.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display module comprises a circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting elements coupled to a front surface of the circuit board and arranged in an array configured to produce at least a portion of a display image at the front surface of the circuit board, and a contrast mask directly coupled to the front surface of the circuit board, the contrast mask def...