US Patent Issued to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS on Aug. 4 for "Dual-emission lighting systems employing light guides with segmented light extraction patterns" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,220, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS INC. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Dual-emission lighting systems employing light guides with segmented light extraction patterns" was invented by Sergiy Vasylyev (Elk Grove, Calif.) and Mykola Masalitin (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight for an LCD display has an optically transmissive sheet with first and second broad-area surfaces, four edges, a light mixing region adjacent to a first edge, and a light extraction region. The mixing region has smooth planar surfaces for guiding light via total internal reflection. Light extraction features are ...