US Patent Issued to LX SEMICON on Feb. 10 for "Light emitting diode driving circuit and backlight apparatus of display" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,240, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Light emitting diode driving circuit and backlight apparatus of display" was invented by Jangsu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sangsuk Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jihwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kyeongrok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LED driving circuit can include a switching element connected to one end of an LED string and configured to adjust current flowing through the LED string, and a withstanding-voltage reducing circuit connected in parallel with the switching element and configur...