ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,808, issued on March 18, was assigned to WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Gate drive circuits and display panels" was invented by Bin Yuan (Hubei, China), Fang Qin (Hubei, China) and Cheng Chen (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate drive circuit includes a plurality of gate drive units. Each of the gate drive units includes a stage transmission signal selection circuit, a pull-up control circuit, a pulse number reduction circuit, a first inversion circuit, a first output stage, and a second output stage, and can output a second gate control signal with a greate...