ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,845, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Source driver for outputting black grayscale voltage selected depending on voltage of pin and control method thereof" was invented by Jun Young Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Young Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Woo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung Bae Yun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source driver includes a pin to which a first voltage or a second voltage is applied; an output multiplexer configured to select a data voltage and a black grayscale voltage of pixel data; and a controller configured to control a voltag...