ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,698, issued on March 4, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).
"Touchscreen" was invented by Masahiro Teramoto (Mobara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchscreen includes a plurality of X electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in parallel in a second direction, a plurality of Y electrodes extending in the second direction so as to intersect the X electrodes and arranged in parallel in the first direction, and pedestal layers formed at respective intersections between the plurality of X electrodes and the plurality of Y electrodes, wherein an intersection portion of each Y electrode is formed under the pe...