ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,198, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image display using a segmented backplane" was invented by Stuart James Myron Nicholson (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffrey Tang Fung Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Lo (San Jose, Calif.), Edwin Lyle Hudson (San Jose, Calif.) and Kaushik Indravadan Sheth (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system may include a segment analyzer, a segment buffer, and a set of pixel drivers. The segment analyzer may perform an analysis of image data representing an image to be displayed. The analysis distinguishes a first portion of the image data that corresp...