US Patent Issued to NICHIA on April 7 for "Partitioning member, planar light source, and liquid crystal display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,275, issued on April 7, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Partitioning member, planar light source, and liquid crystal display device" was invented by Koki Shibai (Itano-gun, Japan), Yoshihiro Sho (Fujiyoshida, Japan), Motokazu Yamada (Tokushima, Japan), Naoya Kashiwagi (Itano-gun, Japan) and Shimpei Sasaoka (Itano-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar light source includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources arranged on the substrate, and at least one partitioning member disposed on the substrate. The at least one partitioning member includes: a plurality of first ridges extending in a first direction; ...