US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA on July 7 for "Optical waveguide light emitter and touchscreen" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,195, issued on July 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA (Vienna).

"Optical waveguide light emitter and touchscreen" was invented by Jonas Zeuner (Vienna), Philip Walther (Vienna), Alexander Szameit (Bad Doberan, Germany), Matthias Heinrich (Bad Doberan, Germany) and Lukas Maczewsky (Rostock, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device for controlling light and an optical touch sensing device are formed by direct laser writing in a transparent substrate to manufacture one or more optical waveguides therein."

The patent was filed on July 25, 2019, under Application No. 17/263,354.

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