ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,859, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Display with a backlight module comprising a target block and an adjacent block and method of controlling the same" was invented by Yi-Tsung Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Yen-Tao Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a display, including a backlight module and a timing controller. The backlight module includes a target backlight block and an adjacent backlight block, the adjacent backlight block is adjacent to the target backlight block. The timing controller is coupled to the backlight module,...