ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,730, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Debugging system and a driver adaptable thereto" was invented by Yu-Nian Ou (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chun-Kai Chuang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Pei-Yuan Hung (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsiang Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver adaptable to a debugging system includes a driver controller, and a driver general-purpose input and output (GPIO) controlled by the driver controller. The driver GPIO directly transfers a debug log of status messages of a touchscreen to a host general-purpose input and output (GPIO) of a host witho...