US Patent Issued to Japan Display on July 21 for "Illumination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,110, issued on July 21, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Illumination device" was invented by Kazunori Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Wakana (Tokyo) and Takayuki Imai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device includes a light source, a light adjustment device configured to control a light distribution angle of light emitted from the light source, and a controller configured to control the light source and the light adjustment device. The controller includes a storage configured to hold information indicating a correspondence relation between an irradiation area calculated based on a light distribution angl...