ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,164, issued on March 11, was assigned to Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Display device and backlight module thereof" was invented by Chia-Yin Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Po-Chang Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Kun-Cheng Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source, and an optical film. The light guide plate has a light incident surface and a light exiting surface opposite to the light incident surface, in which the light exiting surface has a normal line. The light source is adjacent to the light incident surface. The optical film is dispose...