ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,626, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AmTRAN Technology Co. Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Direct type backlight module" was invented by Hung-Ta Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module includes a circuit board, light-emitting elements and a light guide component. The light emitting elements are disposed on the circuit board. The light emitting elements include a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element. The light emitting elements are disposed between the light-guiding element and the circuit board. There are no other optical elements between the light-guiding element and the ligh...