ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,382, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Mie, Japan).

"Display device and control method for suppressing deterioration in image quality and reducing power consumption" was invented by Tetsuya Umehara (Kameyama City, Japan), Masahiro Takeda (Kameyama City, Japan) and Hideo Hosorogi (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes multiple scan lines arranged in a display region; a first scan line driving circuit outside the display region that is connected to multiple scan lines at one end in an extending direction and supplies voltages to multiple scan lines; a second scan li...