ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,102, issued on July 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Backplane for an array of emissive elements" was invented by Edwin Lyle Hudson (San Jose, Calif.) and Bo Li (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backplane operative to drive an array of emissive pixel elements is disclosed. A plurality of pixel drive circuits form part of an array of emissive elements. The plurality of pixel drive circuits are disposed to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The plurality of pixel drive circuits are organized into sets of pixel drive circuits, and each set comprises at least one pixel drive circuit....