ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,824, issued on March 18, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Pixel circuit for lower power consumption" was invented by Ying-Chieh Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yi-Fu Ou (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yung-Hsiang Lan (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor and a fourth transistor. A first end of the driving transistor is electrically coupled to a system high voltage terminal. The driving transistor is configured to control a driving current supplied to a light emitting element. A first end of the sto...