ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,050, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Touch display device, display panel, and gate driving circuit" was invented by Byoungwoo Kim (Paju-si, South Korea), JoonHo Lee (Paju-si, South Korea), HyunHo Park (Paju-si, South Korea) and Sunghoon Paik (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch display device, a display panel, and a gate driving circuit are disclosed. A touch display device comprises a display panel having subpixels, a gate driving circuit including gate stages for applying a scan signal to the display panel through gate lines and dummy stages selectively disposed ...