ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,911, issued on July 15, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Control device and related display system" was invented by Cian-Rou Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Cheng Yueh Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chun-Chieh Chan (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is configured to control a display panel according to a trigger signal transmitted from an input device to a host. The control device includes a connector unit and a signal capture unit. The connector unit is configured to receive the trigger signal, and transmit the same to the host. The signal capture unit is configured...