ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,089, issued on April 21, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Global dimming display device and its control circuit and operation method" was invented by Wei-Chen Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global dimming display device and its control circuit and an operation method are provided. The global dimming display device includes a display panel module, a backlight panel module, and a control circuit. The backlight panel module provides backlight to the display panel module. The control circuit checks an image frame. In response to the image frame not being a dark picture, the ...