US Patent Issued to Flex-N-Gate Advanced Product Development on July 21 for "Masked double-sided optical sheet lighting assembly" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,271, issued on July 21, was assigned to Flex-N-Gate Advanced Product Development LLC (Windsor, Canada).

"Masked double-sided optical sheet lighting assembly" was invented by Todd Nykerk (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are vehicle lamp assemblies comprising a double-sided optical sheet with a mask printed directly onto the optical sheet. The optical sheet comprises a light-homogenizing sheet disposed over a plurality of light-emitting diodes. Instead of placing the mask over the optical sheet on a structure, the light-homogenizing sheet itself serves as a substrate during a printing process such that th...