ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,823, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Driver circuit driving display panel in two modes" was invented by Tso-Hua Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit suitable driving a display panel is provided. The driver circuit includes a display driver circuit and a touch driver circuit. The display driver circuit drives the display panel to be operated in a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, different areas of the display panel have different frame rates. In the second mode, different areas of the display panel have a same frame rate. The touch d...