ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,833, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Gate driver and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Minwoo Byun (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minjoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wonkyu Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver includes an input circuit, a pull-up circuit, a pull-down circuit, a QB node control circuit and a Q node control circuit. The input circuit transmits an input signal to a Q node in response to a first clock signal. The pull-up circuit pulls up a gate output signal to a high voltage in response to a signal of a QF no...