ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,898, issued on July 15, was assigned to TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Guangxing Xiao (Guangdong, China), Yu Wu (Guangdong, China), Tao He (Guangdong, China), Xuebing Zhou (Guangdong, China) and Xinghai Zhao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LCD device includes: a display panel, one display frame of the display panel corresponds to multiple scan cycles of a backlight source, a light-emitting diode array of an arbitrary one of backlight partitions has a first brightness and a second brightness under controlling of a timer control r...