ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,616, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hajime Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Umezaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device where delay or distortion of a signal output to a gate signal line in a selection period is reduced is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate signal line, a first and second gate driver circuits which output a selection signal and a non-selection signal to the gate signal line, and pixels electrically connected to the gate signal line and supplied with the two signal...