ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,622, issued on June 9, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Backlight module and display device" was invented by Min-Hsuan Chiu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Wei-Ming Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chao-Min Yang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module includes a switching control unit, a first light source unit disposed below the switching control unit and including a first light source and a first light guide, a second light source unit disposed between the switching control unit and the first light source unit and including a second light source and a second light guide, and a first prism fi...