US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Display with silicon gate drivers and semiconducting oxide pixels" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,030, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Display with silicon gate drivers and semiconducting oxide pixels" was invented by Shinya Ono (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chin-Wei Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Chen-Ming Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Hassan Edrees (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may include an array of pixels that receive control signals from a chain of gate drivers. The pixels can be formed using semiconducting oxide transistors, whereas the gate drivers can be formed using silicon transistor. Each gate driver may include a shift register subcircuit and an output buffer subcirc...