ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,140, issued on June 16, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Methods of compensating display panel for reducing luminance discrepancy" was invented by Tso-Hua Chien (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of compensating a display panel includes providing a refresh control signal to configure a first area and a second area of the display panel; and providing an initial signal to the display panel. The initial signal includes a first initial voltage to initialize the first area before a first data operation, and a second initial voltage to initialize the second area before a second ...