ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,950, issued on March 17, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"LED driver IC for scanning backlight control" was invented by Yi-Fan Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan), Taiquan Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Chung-Yi Chiu (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Steve Shaw-Jong Liu (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for controlling a backlight apparatus in a media device with driver ICs. In some embodiments, the media device can include a display screen and the backlight apparatus. In...