ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,778, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to E Ink Corp. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Methods for delivering low-ghosting partial updates in color electrophoretic displays" was invented by Sarah Paydavosi (Winchester, Mass.) and Kenneth R. Crounse (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for improved partial updates in color electrophoretic displays. By identifying transition borders between pixels receiving null updates (no voltage sent to pixel electrode) and color updates, problematic pixels, which would have received null updates, are caused to update to a same color state, thereby reducing edge ghosting in the updated image ...