ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,411, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to E Ink Corp. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Electro-optic displays and driving methods" was invented by Bryan Hans Chan (San Francisco) and Craig Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for driving electro-optic displays including a layer of electro-optic material disposed between a common electrode and a backplane including an array of pixel electrodes, each coupled to a pixel transistor. The method for driving includes apportioning a displayable region of the electro-optic display into N BRAID line groups, where each of the N BRAID line groups is associated with a frame buffer. The ...