ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,888, issued on April 21, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Illumination control device" was invented by Takayuki Imai (Tokyo), Kazunori Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Wakana (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination control device includes a storage that is non-transitory and stores setting information for controlling a light emitter configured to emit light, and a controller that writes the setting information as of then to the storage when a request for writing the setting information is input and reads the setting information from the storage when a request for reading the setting information is input. The ...