ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,388, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Gate driver and display device" was invented by Hong-Kyu Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver includes M active stages configured to generate first through M-th carry signals and first through M-th gate signals based on clock signals, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 4, and K back dummy stages configured to generate (M+1)-th through (M+K)-th carry signals based on the clock signals, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 3. An N-th active stage of the M active stages discharges a control ...