US Patent Issued to NOVATEK Microelectronics on Jan. 20 for "Backlight driver of driving light-emitting diode string for decreasing heat dissipation and method of controlling the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,392, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Backlight driver of driving light-emitting diode string for decreasing heat dissipation and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jhih-Siou Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Keko-Chun Liang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Fu Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Jin-Yi Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chieh-An Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Po-Hsiang Fang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the invention, a backlight driver of driving a light-emitting diode (LED) string via a driving transistor in a load path is provided. The L...