ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,419, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal displays with optical sensors" was invented by Hiroyuki Abe (Tokyo), Akihiko Saitoh (Tokyo) and Masateru Morimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device with an optical sensor includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first to third signal lines, an optical sensor including a photoelectric conversion element, first to third power feeding lines supplying first to third voltages to operate the optical sensor, and a sensor signal line...