ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,162, issued on March 24, was assigned to WUXI CLEARINK Ltd. (Wuxi, China).
"Displaying images on total internal reflective displays" was invented by Thomas Johansson (Coquitlam, Canada), Vivek Porush (Milpitas, Calif.), Graham Beales (Vancouver, Canada) and Peter T. Kazlas (Sudbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A total internal reflection-based display may be driven by an apparatus and method to move electrophoretically mobile particles into and out of an evanescent wave region to create static and video images. The apparatus may comprise one or more of a host microprocessor/controller, display controller, TIR display panel,...