ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,087, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electro-optical device and display apparatus" was invented by Tetsuaki Murohashi (Nagano-ken, Japan), Kikuya Morita (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yohei Sugimoto (Nagano-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal apparatus includes a substrate, a pixel electrode, common wiring provided between the substrate and the pixel electrode, a TFT, a scanning line, a capacitance element provided between the substrate and the scanning line and overlapping the scanning line in plan view, and a second relay electrode electrically coupled to the common wiring and overlappin...