ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,082, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Backlight module and display device" was invented by Wei-Hsuan Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chun-Hau Lai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Wen-Hao Cai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module includes a light source, an optical film, and a light control film. The light control film has a first reference surface and a plurality of first optical structures disposed on the first reference surface. Each of the first optical structures has a first optical surface and a second optical surface. A first included angle is formed between...