ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,714, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).
"Display device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Koichi Igeta (Tokyo), Kentaro Okuyama (Tokyo) and Koji Kitamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes pixel electrodes and a first alignment film. The second substrate includes a common electrode and a second alignment film. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the alignment films and contains a streaky polymer and liquid crystal molecules. The first alig...