US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for two-dimensional backlight operation" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,528, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for two-dimensional backlight operation" was invented by Mahesh B. Chappalli (San Jose, Calif.), Assaf Menachem (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Daniel Yechiel Dar (Givatayim, Israel) and Ido Yaacov Soffair (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic display device has a panel that operates in conjunction with a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight. The device "slopes" or gradually ramps a change in brightness of an LED based on a target brightness value of the LED, a current brightness value of the LED, and temperature at the LED. ...