US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Dec. 9 for "Planar lighting device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,214, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Planar lighting device" was invented by Yongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Munheon Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Chilkeun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sangcheon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Mangeun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including a liquid crystal panel, a backlight unit providing light to the liquid crystal panel, and a lower cover, wherein the backlight unit is disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the lower cover, and wherein the backlight unit includes a first circuit substrate and a second circuit s...