ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,227, issued on March 11, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method for driving optical element" was invented by Takayuki Imai (Tokyo), Kojiro Ikeda (Tokyo) and Takeo Koito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for driving an optical element including a first liquid crystal cell, the first liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate on which first and second transparent electrodes are arranged in a first direction, a second substrate on which third and fourth transparent electrodes are arranged in a second direction, and a first liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, and th...