ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,299, issued on April 8, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Compact memory-in-pixel display structure" was invented by Juhan Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sanjay Raj Parihar (Austin, Texas), Mahbub Rashed (Cupertino, Calif.) and Zahir Yilmaz Alpaslan (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a pixel and a compact memory-in-pixel display (e.g., implemented in a fully-depleted semiconductor-on-insulator processing technology platform). A block of electronic components for a pixel includes a memory cell array, a driving circuit for an LED, and a logic circuit connected between the memory cell ar...