ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,525, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Aleddra Inc. (Renton, Wash.).

"Digital display apparatus with dual refresh frequencies" was invented by Chia-Yiu Maa (Bellevue, Wash.) and Li-Jyuan Luo (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital display apparatus comprises a controller and a digital pixel panel. The pixels of the digital pixel panel are divided into a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels. The controller is configured to operate the first group of pixels at a first flicker-free refresh frequency F1 and to operate the second group of pixels at a second flicker-free refresh frequency F2less thanF1....