ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,358, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and method of operating a display device that performs a sensing operation on at least one pixel in a blank period of a frame period" was invented by Jungeon An (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kihyun Pyun (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display panel including pixels, and a panel driver configured to sequentially apply data voltages to the pixels on a row basis in an active period of a frame period, and to perform a sensing operation on at least one pixel of the pixels in a blank p...