ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,549, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Daktronics Inc. (Brookings, S.D.).
"Electro-optical displays with row and column light-pipes" was invented by Ronald S. Cok (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optically controlled display includes a display substrate. Row wires, row light-pipes, and column light-pipes are disposed on the display substrate. A row controller provides a respective row electrical signal to each of the row wires and a respective row optical signal to each of the row light-pipes. A column controller provides a respective column optical signal to each of the column light-pipes. Pixels are dispo...