ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,811, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Panel impedance sensing via driver replica current" was invented by Tom W. Kwan (Cupertino, Calif.), Yue Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Feng Su (San Jose, Calif.), Guowen Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Fang Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Iuri Mehr (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a driver to provide a voltage at a node of a load and a first circuit to facilitate determining a load current at the node. The load is a capacitive load and the first circuit facilitates determining the load current by measuring a replica cur...