ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,350, issued on June 3, was assigned to GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

"Backlight device for display and current control integrated circuit thereof" was invented by Yong Geun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Min Seon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a backlight device for display and a current control integrated circuit therefor, the current control integrated circuit includes a plurality of driving current control units sharing a column signal for backlight and controlling driving currents of a predetermined number of light-emitting diode channels belonging to the same c...