US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 2 for "Selective driving of a compound backlight with edge lighting" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,113, issued on June 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Selective driving of a compound backlight with edge lighting" was invented by Scott Piecuch (Seattle), Nobuyuki Suzuki (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ying Zheng (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display devices, display systems, backlight assemblies, and methods described herein provide compound backlights with edge lighting. In an aspect, the backlight includes a waveguide, first lights, and an array layer. The first lights are arranged along an edge of the waveguide. Each of the first lights transmits light into the waveguide. The arra...