US Patent Issued to LEDIL on June 2 for "Optical device for modifying a light distribution and a method for manufacturing the same" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,576, issued on June 2, was assigned to LEDIL OY (Salo, Finland).

"Optical device for modifying a light distribution and a method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Olli Saarnio (Turku, Finland) and Matti Vuola (Salo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device (201) comprises a center portion (203) and a reflector portion (204) surrounding the center portion and comprising a reflector surface (205) configured to provide total internal reflection. The center portion comprises a first lens section (206) and a second lens section (207) after the first lens section in a propagation direction of light. A projection of...