US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Nov. 3 for "Planar lighting device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,773, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Planar lighting device" was invented by Yongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Munheon Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Chilkeun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sangcheon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Mangeun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including a lower cover, a liquid crystal panel, and a backlight unit disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the lower cover and providing light to the liquid crystal panel, wherein the backlight unit includes a circuit substrate disposed on an upper surface of the lower cover, a first ad...