ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,266, issued on March 11, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver configured to drive a liquid crystal panel with a static drive system and electro-optic device including driver" was invented by Kazuaki Tanaka (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver includes a first terminal group and a second terminal group, a control circuit for outputting a first pulse width signal group including a plurality of pulse width signals corresponding to a plurality of gray levels, and a second pulse width signal group which is different in correspondence between gray levels and pulse widths from the first pulse width signal gr...