ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,903, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and a method of driving the same" was invented by Yoon Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including: a pixel unit including pixels for generating light in response to a first power and a second power; a power supply for supplying the first power to a first power line and the second power to a second power line; and a protection circuit for discharging a voltage of the first power line and the second power line when the pixels are in a turn-off state, and putting the first power line...