ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,181, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Zonal illumination with photonic circuits for displays" was invented by Guohua Wei (Redmond, Wash.), Peter Topalian (Seattle), Min Chul Shin (Bellevue, Wash.), Risheng Cheng (Redmond, Wash.), Zhujun Shi (Redmond, Wash.), Zhaoning Yu (Redmond, Wash.), Jonathan Robert Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.), Zhimin Shi (Bellevue, Wash.), Giuseppe Calafiore (Woodinville, Wash.) and Heqing Huang (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a device may include a backlight unit configured to illuminate a display. In some examples, a light...