ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,848, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Display device and method for controlling LEDs of backlight panel" was invented by Minhoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a backlight, a pixel controlling unit, a power driving unit, a source driving unit which transmits, to the pixel controlling unit, intensities of the LEDs connected to the pixel controlling unit, and a timing controlling unit. The pixel controlling unit adjusts, in a first time section, an intensity of a first LED based on a first intensity received from the source dri...