ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,746, issued on July 15, was assigned to BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Texture recognition pixel circuit, method for detecting texture, texture detection circuit, display substrate, and display apparatus" was invented by Yingming Liu (Beijing), Xiaoliang Ding (Beijing) and Lei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A texture recognition pixel circuit includes a photosensitive sub-circuit, a potential raising sub-circuit and a driving output sub-circuit. The photosensitive sub-circuit is configured to, under control of a first voltage transmitted by a first voltage terminal and a potential of the reading node, sense a...