ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,185, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Enplas Corp. (Saitama, Japan).

"Surface light source device, display device and light flux controlling member" was invented by Yuki Fujii (Saitama, Japan) and Hiroaki Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface light source device of the present invention includes: a plurality of light-emitting devices disposed on an XY plane of an XYZ coordinate that defines an X direction, a Y direction and a Z direction orthogonal to each other; and a light diffusion plate disposed at a distance from the XY plane in the Z direction. Each of the plurality of light-emitting devices inclu...