ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,420, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Gate driver and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Cholho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gunwoo Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jihoon Yang (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongwoo Lee (Gimpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes a pull-up-pull-down circuit configured to pull up a gate signal to a high level of a first clock signal in a first duration and configured to pull down the gate signal to a low ...