ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,891, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Yosuke Toyoshima (Tokyo) and Kensuke Shioda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First electrodes include a left-side first electrode disposed on a left side of a virtual line bisecting a display region and passing through a geometric center of the display region, and a right-side first electrode disposed on a right side of the virtual line, and a detector includes a determination processor configured to determine a detection target moving from the left side to the right side to be a left-side user approaching from the left side base...