ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,022, issued on June 2, was assigned to AmTRAN TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Backlight module" was invented by Hung-Ta Yu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module includes a circuit board, light-emitting elements, an optical element and a reflective element. The light emitting elements are disposed on the circuit board. The light emitting elements are disposed between the optical element and the circuit board. There is no other optical component between the optical element and the light-emitting elements. The optical element has a light guide portion composed of a non-light diffusing ...