ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,228, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Japan).
"Electronic book" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo), Jun Koyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuyuki Arai (Kanagawa, Japan), Ikuko Kawamata (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Miyaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshitaka Moriya (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An e-book reader in which destruction of a driver circuit at the time when a flexible panel is handled is inhibited. In addition, an e-book reader having a simplified structure. A plurality of flexible display panels each including a display portion in which display control is performed by ...