ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,930, issued on May 20, was assigned to MACROBLOCK INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Scan-type display apparatus capable of short circuit detection, and scan driver thereof" was invented by Chi-Min Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Che-Wei Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen-Yuan Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei-Hsiang Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scan-type display apparatus includes an LED array and a scan driver. The LED array has a common cathode configuration, and includes multiple scan lines, multiple data lines and multiple LEDs. The scan driver includes multiple scan driving circuits. Each scan driving circuit includes a voltag...