ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,646, issued on March 11, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).
"Detection device" was invented by Akihiko Saitoh (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes: a substrate having a sensor region in which photosensors are arranged in a first direction and a second direction. In the sensor region, the substrate includes: read control scan lines extending in the first direction and configured to transmit read control signals; and output signal lines extending in the second direction. The photosensors includes: dummy elements comprising first photodiodes and arranged along a contour of the sensor region; and de...