ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,893, issued on June 30, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Touch display integrated circuit and operating method thereof, and touch display device" was invented by Chi-Yu Ou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hsiang-Cheng Yu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chin-Lin Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chun-Hao Huang (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch display integrated circuit (IC) and an operating method thereof, and a touch display device are disclosed. The touch display IC includes a scanning circuit and a processing circuit. The scanning circuit is coupled to multiple touch pads of the touch di...