ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,843, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to XIAMEN TIANMA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).
"Scanning circuit" was invented by Jiro Yanase (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masamichi Shimoda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shift registers output high-level pulses each having a length of two or more horizontal periods one after another with a transfer step of one horizontal period. The shift register is controlled by a first clock signal and a second clock signal in m phases of clock signals. The shift register includes a high-level output thin-film transistor, a low-level output thin-film transistor and a buffer thin-film ...