ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,576, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sindarin Inc. (San Francisco).
"Front lighting of a display for a wearable e-reader" was invented by Benjamin Eli Nelson Chelf (San Francisco), John Aaron Boiles (Albany, Calif.), Nicholas Cory Johnson (Austin, Texas), Steven David Oliver (San Jose, Calif.), Tun Yuen Yeung (Fremont, Calif.) and Vooi Leng Tan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a system and device for displaying content. The system includes two optical units. The two optical units are part of the system that is wearable. Each of the two optical units includes a front lit dis...