ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,981, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Backlight unit, display device and driving method" was invented by Changwoo Lee (Paju-si, South Korea), SunYoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sanggoo Jeong (Paju-si, South Korea) and Juyoung Noh (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a backlight unit, a display device, and a driving method. A sensing MUX circuit senses a voltage of a first light emitting node and a voltage of a second light emitting node, and then, detects whether a first light source connected between the first li...