ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,278, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Pixel luminance for digital display" was invented by Ying Zheng (Sammamish, Wash.), Matthew D. Morris (Seattle), Vasudha Gupta (Fremont, Calif.) and Younghun Paik (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital display includes a plurality of pixel rows. For each pixel row, the digital display includes an EM gate driver configured to supply the pixel row with a luminance-controlling signal during each of a plurality of image frames. A luminance controller is configured to instruct the EM gate drivers to supply a pulse-width modulate...