ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,168, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Engineered cut-outs for a display back light unit" was invented by Guillermo Fabian Diaz Lankenau (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Antonio Yamil Layon Halun (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for reducing thermal distortion in an optical display for use in a 3D stereoscopic video conferencing system. The thermal distortion can arise from operation of an array of LEDs in a back light unit of the display. Forming cut-outs in the display can interrupt the flow of heat to maintain geometric stability of precision came...