ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,088, issued on April 8, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Yohei Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Arichika Ishida (Tokyo), Hidekazu Miyake (Tokyo), Hiroto Miyake (Tokyo) and Isao Suzumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate, a first metal layer on the insulating substrate, a first insulating layer on the insulating substrate and the first metal layer, a semiconductor layer on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the semiconductor layer and the first insulating layer, a second metal layer on the second...