ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,868, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Driver, display panel and display device capable of discharging a QB node in a power-off period" was invented by Minwoo Byun (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minjoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Seoni Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver includes a plurality of stages. At least one stage includes: an input circuit configured to transfer an input signal to a Q node in response to a first clock signal, where the Q node includes a first Q node and a second Q node; a QB node controlling circuit configured to control ...