ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,828, issued on July 29.

"Displays with direct-lit backlight units" was invented by Daming Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yufeng Yan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qingbing Wang (Campbell, Calif.), Chenhua You (San Jose, Calif.), Rong Liu (Cupertino, Calif.), Jun Qi (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenyue Luo (Campbell, Calif.), Mookyung Son (Cupertino, Calif.) and Victor H. Yin (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes on...