ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,758, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DARWIN PRECISIONS Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Backlight module including light guide structure" was invented by Yu-Huan Chiu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsiang-I Hu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Jian-Jhih You (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module includes stacked light guide plates, a light source module, and a deflecting film. Each light guide plate has a light-incident surface, a light exit surface, a bottom surface, and a light guide structure. The light exit surface and the bottom surface are placed on two opposite sides of the light guide plate and b...