ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,217, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus and light source device thereof with optical dome" was invented by Kyungsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungyeol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chunsoon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyehoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure, a display apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a light emitting diode (LED) chip mounted on the PCB and configured to emit light, an optical dome formed to enclose the LED chip by being dispensed on the LED chip, and a liquid crysta...