ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,366, issued on July 7, was assigned to Shenzhen Uascent Technology Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Linkage control method and system for TV viewing ambient light strips" was invented by Ming Xu (Shenzhen, China), Xuan Yi (Shenzhen, China), Weipeng Huang (Shenzhen, China), Lin Tang (Shenzhen, China), Kaihua Wu (Shenzhen, China), Bin Sun (Shenzhen, China) and Xinran Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a linkage control method and system for TV viewing ambient light strips, relating to the technical field of light strip control. The method includes: installing a controller above a TV set and...