US Patent Issued to Distance Technologies on April 14 for "Apparatus, system and method for controlling temperature of backlight unit of display system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,946, issued on April 14, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Apparatus, system and method for controlling temperature of backlight unit of display system" was invented by Ville Vehkapera (Oulu, Finland), Petri Savolainen (Espoo, Finland) and Mikko Juhola (Muurla, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling temperature of backlight unit of display system includes: hollow heat transfer element arranged between optical element(s) of backlight unit and printed circuit board of backlight unit when apparatus is in use, wherein a first heat transfer fluid circulates within hollow space of hollow he...