ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,931, issued on April 29, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Display device and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Koji Ishizaki (Aichi, Japan) and Kouji Noguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a ...