ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,764, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Timing controller and display device including the same" was invented by Yumin Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sangyun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Seongen Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timing controller suitable for providing image data and control signals to a display panel includes at least one dedicated controller configured to instruct the display panel to perform a specific operation; and a dedicated processor configured to store at least one communication-dedicated instruction, interpret, according to a communicatio...