ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,701, issued on March 4, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Touch panel, display panel, and display unit" was invented by Takayuki Nakanishi (Aichi, Japan), Koji Noguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Ishizaki (Aichi, Japan), Yasuyuki Teranishi (Aichi, Japan) and Takeya Takeuchi (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel, a display panel, and a display unit achieving prevention of erroneous detection caused by external noise. The touch panel includes: a plurality of detection scan electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes facing the plurality of detection scan electrodes and e...