ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,931, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus with dimming block and driving device" 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; and a light source apparatus. The light source apparatus includes a substrate comprising a first side directed to the liquid crystal panel; at least one dimming block disposed on the first side of the substrate and each comprising at ...