ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,613, issued on March 25, was assigned to Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Backlight module and display device" was invented by Chunfeng Liu (Shanghai) and Ronghua Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates a backlight module and a display device to improve surface uniformity of the backlight module. The backlight module includes: a first region and a second region surrounding the first region; a backplate; a light source located at a side of the backplate pointing to a light exiting direction of the backlight module and also located in the first region; and a first structure loc...