ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,704, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Panel driving device" was invented by Chu-Kuan Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Che-Min Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Ru Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Fang-Ming Tsao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Kai-Teng Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chen-Yu Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel driving device includes panel. Panel includes data line, reference electrode line and first pixel. Data line transmits data signal. Reference electrode line transmits reference signal. First pixel generates pixel signal according to data signal and reference signal....