US Patent Issued to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS on Sept. 22 for "Wide-area illumination panels employing flexible printed circuits and side-emitting LEDs" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,536, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS INC. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Wide-area illumination panels employing flexible printed circuits and side-emitting LEDs" was invented by Sergiy Vasylyev (Elk Grove, 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 distributed across the extraction region wit...