ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,906, issued on July 15, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Driver circuit, display device, and electronic device" was invented by Atsushi Umezaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress malfunctions in a shift register circuit. A shift register having a plurality of flip-flop circuits is provided. The flip-flop circuit includes a transistor 11, a transistor 12, a transistor 13, a transistor 14, and a transistor 15. When the transistor 13 or the transistor 14 is turned on in a non-selection period, the potential of a node A is set, so that the node A is prevented from enterin...