ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,296, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Input/output panel and input/output device" was invented by Hajime Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a novel input/output panel that is highly convenient or reliable, a novel input/output device that is highly convenient or reliable, a novel input/output panel, a novel input/output device, or a novel semiconductor device. The input/output panel includes a pixel, a sensor element, a signal line, a control line, and a scan line. The sensor element has a region overlapping with t...