ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,729, issued on June 24, was assigned to TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Switch devices and display apparatuses" was invented by Yongfeng Wu (Guangdong, China), Wenfang Li (Guangdong, China) and Haoran Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch device includes: a switch circuit; a control signal input terminal configured to input a control signal to the switch circuit; a voltage input terminal configured to input an initial voltage to the switch circuit; and a voltage output terminal configured to output an output voltage to a light-emitting device. The switch circuit includes: ...