ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,854, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Display driving circuit structure with spike reduction" was invented by Chia-En Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei Ta Chiu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Keko-Chun Liang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Hsuan Lai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Tung-Hao Sung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display driving circuit structure with spike reduction is provided, comprising an operational amplifier circuit, a switching element and an output inductor. The operational amplifier circuit includes a first terminal receiving an input signal and an inverting terminal. ...