ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,709, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Driver circuit" was invented by Chun-Ching Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chun-Hung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Chung Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit, configured to drive a touch display panel, is provided. The touch display panel includes a sensor. The driver circuit includes a timing control circuit and a touch sensing circuit. The timing control circuit is configured to output a touch driving signal to the sensor. The sensor generates a sensing signal according to the touch driving signal. The touch sensi...