ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,502, issued on March 24, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated driving device and operation method thereof" was invented by Wei-Lun Shih (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Wu-Wei Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Jiun-Jie Tsai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Huang-Chin Tang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ching-Chun Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated driving device is provided. The integrated driving device includes a touch sensing circuit and an optical sensing circuit. The touch sensing circuit is configured to perform touch sensing in a plurality of touch sensing periods during ...