ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,368, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to E Ink Holdings Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Driving circuit of display and operation method and electronic device of a timing controller that determines a current operating status according to a number of pulse signals" was invented by Hsiao-Lung Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shu-Cheng Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Lin Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), I-Shin Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Mao Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving circuit of the display includes a timing controller. The timing controller is coupled to a general purpose input/output (GPIO) pin of the touch driver. The timing ...