US Patent Issued to E Ink on Aug. 25 for "Variable light transmission device comprising electrophoretic medium having light reflective pigment particles" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,201, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to E Ink Corp. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Variable light transmission device comprising electrophoretic medium having light reflective pigment particles" was invented by Yu Xia (Acton, Mass.), Dirk Hertel (Quincy, Mass.), Dan Luo (Billerica, Mass.) and Stephen J. Telfer (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable light transmission device is disclosed and a method of manufacture of the same. The variable light transmission device comprises two light transmissive electrodes and a microcell layer having a plurality of microcells, each microcell comprising a protrusion structure and a chann...