ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,406, issued on June 17, was assigned to JSR Corp. (Tokyo) and MATTRIX TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Display" was invented by Hiromitsu Katsui (Minato-ku, Japan), Bo Liu (Gainesville, Fla.) and Maxime Lemaitre (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configuration designed to mitigate display defects resulting from voltage drops in current supply lines offers a display with better display quality. The display includes: a plurality of VOLETs arranged in arrays along a first direction and a second direction; a data line supplying a voltage for controlling gate electrodes of the plurality of VOLETs; TFTs each ...