ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,666, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Scan drive circuit" was invented by Cheng-Hsing Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning drive circuit includes: a start-up circuit, activated based on a start-up signal or a previous stage output signal to pre-charge a first internal node; a logic gate operating based on the start-up signal or the previous stage output signal and a first output signal to control a second voltage at a second internal node; a pull-down circuit determining whether to pull down a first voltage of the first internal node based on the second voltage of the second...