ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,049, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to E Ink Corp. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Methods for driving electro-optic displays" was invented by Kenneth R. Crounse (Somerville, Mass.), Amit Deliwala (Andover, Mass.), Stephen J. Telfer (Arlington, Mass.), Jonathan L. Zalesky (Newton, Mass.), Yin Al (San Francisco) and Teck Ping Sim (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for driving an electro-optic displays having a plurality of display pixels are described. The method includes determining a level of stress quantity for a display pixel of the electro-optic display based on at least one prior update to the optical state of the displa...