ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,203, issued on March 31, was assigned to Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Display device, backlight control circuit and backlight control method" was invented by Pei-Ting Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Peng-Hsiang Wu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Jon-Hong Lin (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight control circuit includes a power supply circuit, a local dimming circuit, a backlight driving circuit, and a supply voltage adjustment circuit. The power supply circuit is used to output the power supply voltage to a backlight module. The backlight module has multiple dimming zones, and e...