ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,148, issued on March 4, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Hayato Kurasawa (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Mizuhashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a display region for displaying an image; a second electrode opposed to the first electrodes; a plurality of switching elements that are arranged in the display region and coupled to the first electrodes or the second electrode; a gate line for supplying a scanning signal for scanning the switching elements; a data line for supplying a signal to the switching elements that are coupl...