ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,277, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Pulse width modulation and amplitude modulation driving system for display panels" was invented by Majid Gharghi (San Carlos, Calif.), Tore Nauta (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Saif Choudhary (San Jose, Calif.), Chuang Qian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hopil Bae (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xia Li (San Jose, Calif.), Patrick B Bennett (San Leandro, Calif.) and Ze Yuan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse width modulation and amplitude modulation driving system for a display panel, including related circuits and methods o...