ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,980, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for detecting damages of touch display panel" was invented by Chia-Wei Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kai-Chung Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Ting Liou (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting damages of a touch display panel is provided. The touch display panel includes a plurality of sensing pads and a plurality of signal lines. The method includes: selecting at least one first device of the sensing pads and the signal lines as a device under test (DUT); apply a first voltage to the DUT and receiving a feedback...