ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,308, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Magnolia Purple Corp. (Tokyo) and Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America.

"Shift register circuit" was invented by Takahiro Ochiai (Chiba, Japan), Mitsuru Goto (Chiba, Japan), Hiroko Sehata (Sapporo, Japan) and Hiroyuki Higashijima (Konosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shift register circuit, including: a plurality of clock signal lines each supplying a plurality of clock pulses respectively; phases of the plurality of clock pulses are different from each other, and a plurality of cascade-connected register circuits including a top register circuit, a bottom register c...