ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,936, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LUXSHARE PRECISION INDUSTRY COMPANY Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Light guide column, and method and apparatus for adjusting sidewall structure of cylindrical light guide column" was invented by Hsi-Sheng Hsia (Shenzhen, China) and Jhih-Li Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for adjusting a sidewall structure of a cylindrical light guide column, where the method includes: acquiring a size parameter of a light guide column; calculating, based on the law of refraction, a total internal reflection angle of the light guide column according to a light...