ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,813, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"IR drop compensation for large OLED display panels" was invented by Ionut A Mirel (Cupertino, Calif.), Mahesh B Chappalli (San Jose, Calif.), Yao Shi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hyunwoo Nho (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Patrick R Cruce (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variation in IR drop across the electronic display may result in display pixels that are intended to be programmed with the same image data to behave differently, resulting in visible image artifacts. The current drawn by the intensity of the display pixels displaying an aggressor image may caus...