ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,869, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image device and motherboard for image device" was invented by Tomoki Yokota (Suwa, Japan) and Kikuya Morita (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At a motherboard for an image device, which is used for manufacturing an image device such as a liquid crystal device, an organic electroluminescence device, a mirror device, and an image-capturing device, a mark for alignment is provided on an outer side of a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged. In the photo-lithography process, a light exposure mask is arranged by using the mark as a refere...