ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,135, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Koichi Okuda (Tokyo), Shinichi Komura (Tokyo), Jin Hirosawa (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Kijima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a display device includes an illumination device, and a display panel. The illumination device includes a first light guide, a second light guide, and a second reflector. The first light guide and the second light guide respectively include first short edges, second short edges, third short edges, and fourth short edges. The second reflector include first segments, second segments, th...