ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,966, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AUO Display Plus Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Display device and backlight control method thereof" was invented by Po-Kun Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ying-Han Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), yueh-Han Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ren-Wei Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a display device and its backlight control method. The display device includes a display panel, a backlight module, and a timing control unit. The display panel has a plurality of scan lines, and the backlight module has a plurality of light-emitting units. These light-emitting units are divided...