US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 30 for "Asynchronous control of a backlight for a liquid crystal display" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,100, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Asynchronous control of a backlight for a liquid crystal display" was invented by Roland Peter Wooster (Folsom, Calif.), Geethacharan Rajagopalan (Gold River, Calif.), John Lang (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Partha Robert Choudhury (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that includes a liquid crystal display, a backlight for the liquid crystal display, a timing controller (TCON), and a display engine located outside of the TCON, where the display engine asynchronously sends image data ...