ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,378, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Display screen" was invented by David Anthony Sweeney (London), Stephen Edward Hodges (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a display screen configurable via optical signals to display an image. The display screen is formed of an optical waveguide having a display surface and supporting a plurality of pixels for displaying the image on the display surface of the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is arranged to guide a multiplexed signal in opt...