ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,385, issued on March 3, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Circuit device and display system" was invented by Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand (Richmond, Canada), Sebdani Mahmood Mazrouei (Markham, Canada) and Stanislav Zaozerskii (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device includes a storage unit and a light source luminance determination circuit. The storage unit stores attenuation rate distribution information indicating an attenuation rate distribution of light with respect to a distance between a light source element and a pixel. The light source luminance determination circuit determines light source...