ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,291, issued on April 15, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Driver circuit" was invented by Kai-Chun Huang (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit configured to drive a display panel to perform a display function and a touch function is provided. The driver circuit includes a plurality of pads and a switch circuit. The plurality of pads are coupled to the display panel and grouped into several pad groups. A synchronization driving signal is applied to the pad groups in a touch sensing phase, and the synchronization driving signal has a first level. The switch circuit is coupled t...