ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,837, issued on June 30, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Display device, discharge circuit and discharge method" was invented by Tsung-Lin Chuang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chuan-Chien Hsu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Han-Shui Hsueh (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chi-Rong Chou (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharge circuit includes a first subcircuit and a second subcircuit. The first subcircuit is coupled between a power supply voltage and a first reference voltage. The first subcircuit is enabled to provide a first discharge path between the power supply voltage and the first reference volta...