ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,831, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Backlight structure and display device" was invented by Chunping Long (Beijing), Jian Xu (Beijing) and Heling Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight structure and a display device are provided. The backlight structure includes a barrier wall pattern and light-emitting units. The barrier wall pattern includes openings and a barrier wall surrounding the openings, the openings are configured to define light regions; and the light-emitting units are distributed in the light regions...