ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,766, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Gate driver" was invented by Minjoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minwoo Byun (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kyonghwan Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yang-Hwa Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Donghwan Jeon (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver includes a plurality of stages. At least one of the stages includes a control circuit configured to control a first control node in response to a first carry clock signal, a node separation transistor connected between the first control node and a second control node, a carry outpu...