ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,561, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Backlight unit and display device comprising the same" was invented by Sunghyun Jung (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight unit according to an example of the present disclosure includes a bottom chassis, a light source disposed on the bottom chassis, a reflective sheet disposed on the bottom chassis, an optical sheet disposed on the light source, supports disposed between the bottom chassis and the optical sheet for supporting the optical sheet and being spaced apart from each other, and a wire portion connecting the support...