ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,525, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Display apparatus and display system" was invented by Tatsuya Hayashi (Kameyama, Japan), Kohji Saitoh (Kameyama, Japan) and Kazuhisa Yoshimoto (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a timing control circuit and a power converter circuit. In response to reception of a control signal used to transition from a display mode to a pause mode from a host controller, the timing control circuit transmits a pause signal to the power control circuit. The power control circuit converts an input voltage to an output volta...