ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,525, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BARCO N.V. (Kortrijk, Belgium).

"Driver circuit for light emitting modules with combined active and passive matrix functionalities" was invented by Patrick Willem (Ostend, Belgium), Bart Van Den Bossche (Marke, Belgium), Peter Gerets (Roeselare, Belgium) and Wim Van Eessen (Kruishoutem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit for driving a matrix of NxM pixels of a light emitting module. Each pixel is composed of at least three types of light emitting elements. The light emitting elements are driven by a modulation control signal. The driver circuit is embedded in a TFT layer. I...