ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,439, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Gate driver circuit and display device" was invented by Tso-Hua Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit includes multiple stages of shift registers. These shift registers are cascade connected in series. Each stage of the shift registers includes a scan unit, a control unit and an output unit. The scan unit receives an enable signal. The scan unit is triggered by a clock signal to sample the enable signal, so as to generate a first node voltage. The first node voltage is utilized as a shift output signal tran...