ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,032, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Gate driver and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Soonsung Ahn (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver may include a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages includes: a node controller configured to control voltages of a Q node, a Q2 node, a Qb node, and a QN node connected to transistors based on a first clock signal and a second clock signal; a dummy signal output unit configured to output a dummy signal based on the voltages of the Q node and the Qb node; and a scan signal output unit confi...