ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,990, issued on May 20, was assigned to Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Microfluidic pixel driving circuit, microfluidic substrate, and microfluidic chip" was invented by Kaidi Zhang (Shanghai), Baiquan Lin (Shanghai), Yunfei Bai (Shanghai), Wei Li (Shanghai) and Kerui Xi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided a microfluidic pixel driving circuit includes n boost modules, where each boost module includes a capacitor and a write unit, and n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; a first terminal of a first capacitor is electrically connected to a fixed potential line, a second terminal of th...