ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,090, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Touch display device and method with switch to disable current path to led during touch phase" was invented by Chia-Chi Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Zeng-De Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch display device comprises a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the plurality of first electrodes provides a first signal. Each of the plurality of pixel circuits comprises a current path and a light emitting element. The current path is coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of first electrodes. ...