ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,017, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Drive circuit and display device" was invented by Yohei Takeuchi (Kameyama City, Japan), Tatsuya Kawasaki (Kameyama City, Japan), Kengo Hara (Kameyama City, Japan), Masafumi Sugino (Kameyama City, Japan) and Hajime Imai (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit circuit of a gate drive circuit includes first to fourth transistors. The first transistor outputs a drive signal to a gate line. The second transistor is a transistor to which a set signal is inputted and which charges a node. The third transistor is a transisto...