ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,211, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Pixel circuitry and operation for memory-containing electronic display" was invented by Yingkan Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Tien-Chien Kuo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bilin Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Kanghoon Jeon (San Jose, Calif.), Ivan Knez (San Jose, Calif.) and Chun-Yao Huang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit for an electronic display may include a memory to store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting diode to emit light based at least in part on the digital dat...