US Patent Issued to E Ink on June 24 for "Electro-optic displays and methods for discharging remnant voltage using backlight" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,559, issued on June 24, was assigned to E Ink Corp. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Electro-optic displays and methods for discharging remnant voltage using backlight" was invented by Teck Ping Sim (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for reducing a remnant voltage of an electro-optic display. The display includes a light-transmissive front electrode, a layer of electro-optic material, pixel electrodes, thin film transistors positioned adjacent to the electro-optic material, a light source positioned adjacent the thin film transistors, and a display driver coupled to the light source and to a gate and source line ...