US Patent Issued to Distance Technologies on July 14 for "High efficiency backlight for multiscopic display" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,102, issued on July 14, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"High efficiency backlight for multiscopic display" was invented by Urho Konttori (Helsinki), Petri Savolainen (Espoo, Finland), Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland) and Mikko Juhola (Muurla, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The backlight unit includes an array of light-emitting elements and a plurality of cavity reflectors, wherein a given cavity reflector partially surrounds a corresponding light-emitting element of said array. The backlight unit further includes a collimator arrang...