ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,838, issued on March 25, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Display apparatus and electronic device" was invented by Kazunori Watanabe (Machida, Japan) and Koji Kusunoki (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus with low power consumption is provided. The display apparatus includes a circuit for boosting a signal voltage output from a gate driver. The signal voltage from the gate driver can be boosted and then supplied to a pixel, which is suitable for driving a display device with a high threshold voltage. Furthermore, by utilizing a boosting function, output of the g...