ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,032, issued on July 15, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Marina Mochizuki (Tokyo) and Isao Suzumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purpose of the present invention is to countermeasure a connection failure of an electrode in an optical sensor using PIN type photo conductive film. A structure of the present invention is as follows. A semiconductor device including an optical sensor, the optical sensor including: a thin film transistor formed on a substrate, and a photo diode formed above the thin film transistor, in which the photo diode includes an anode, a photo conductive f...