ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,837, issued on March 25, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Hirotaka Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a display device includes scan lines, signal lines, a scan circuit, a signal output circuit, pixels each having a switching element and a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a common electrode drive circuit. In a potential reset period to reset a potential of the pixel electrode and a common potential inversion period subsequent to the potential reset period, the scan circuit supplies, to the scan lines, a drive potential to drive the switching eleme...