ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,697, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chongqing, China) and BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Backlight module, display module and display apparatus" was invented by Yu Wang (Beijing), Wencheng Luo (Beijing), Meilong Hu (Beijing), Jinhong Zhang (Beijing), Wenqi Quan (Beijing), Wei Ran (Beijing), Zhi Li (Beijing), Hening Zhang (Beijing), Bowen Xiong (Beijing), Qiong Yuan (Beijing), Xin Cen (Beijing), Ke Liao (Beijing) and Yiming Cheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module includes a light-emitting substrate, at least one chip-on-film and a b...