ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,283, issued on April 8, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics COrp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic circuit having display driving function, touch sensing function and fingerprint sensing function" was invented by Huan-Teng Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Hsuan Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Wen Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Lun Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Huang-Chin Tang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit including a plurality of common terminals, a first circuit, a second circuit, and a plurality of switch units is provided. The first circuit is configured to output display driving signals to da...