ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,827, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).
"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Masateru Morimoto (Tokyo), Saori Sugiyama (Tokyo) and Motoharu Miyamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The displacement between a TFT substrate and a counter substrate and the cut of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer are prevented. A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate including a scanning line extending in a first direction, a picture signal line extending in a second direction, a pixel electrode formed in a region surrounded by the scanning line and the picture signal line, and a...