ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,545, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Display device with privacy mode" was invented by Dongwan Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jungkook Park (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Dohyun Kang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a switching part and a first pixel circuit electrically connected to the switching part, and the switching part outputs a turn-off voltage to a first node in a first mode and outputs an initialization voltage to the first node in a second mode. The first pixel circuit includes a first transistor including a gate termina...