ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,812, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Display apparatus" was invented by Seungyong Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungmo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changhoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yongmin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel; a plurality of light sources configured to emit light; a substrate including a plurality of dimming blocks arranged in rows and columns, each dimming block of the plurality of dimming blocks including at least one light source of the plurality of light sources; a first dr...