ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,374, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display device including a liquid crystal layer including polymers and liquid crystal molecules and switching between a scattering state and a transmitting state" was invented by Kentaro Okuyama (Tokyo), Yoshihide Ohue (Tokyo), Hiroki Sugiyama (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Tada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer including polymers and liquid crystal molecules, and a light-emitting element. The first substrate includes a transparent substrate, a scanning li...