ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,017, issued on June 17, was assigned to INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY ERICA CAMPUS (Ansan-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for storing non-volatile display pixel data" was invented by Younghyun Kim (Ansan-si, South Korea), Seoungmin Park (Ansan-si, South Korea) and Yonggyeong Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a display pixel that has a memory function, including a switching TFT configured to control whether the pixel is driven, a charge trapping TFT configured to control a pixel driving current and perform a memory function, a storage cap...