ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,996, issued on July 1, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor substrate usable in an electrophoretic display device" was invented by Hirotaka Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor substrate, comprising, a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer that overlap a scanning line, an insulating layer that covers the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a signal line, wherein the insulating layer has a first opening including a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, the long sides of the first opening are parallel to...