US Patent Issued to MAGNOLIA WHITE on Aug. 11 for "Illumination device and display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,722, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MAGNOLIA WHITE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Illumination device and display device" was invented by Shinichi Komura (Tokyo), Koichi Okuda (Tokyo), Ken Onoda (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Kijima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide, a plurality of light source elements, and a reflector including a first portion parallel to a second edge of the light guide and a second portion parallel to a third edge of the light guide, and the third edge includes first short edges extending in the first direction and second short edges extending in the second...