ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,765, issued on March 18, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Koichiro Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate including a pixel array with a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, and a counter substrate including a counter electrode opposed to the array substrate and overlapping the plurality of pixel electrodes. The counter electrode includes openings in regions overlapping each of the pixel electrodes, and the plurality of pixel electrodes includes four pixel electrodes adjacent each other, and edg...