ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,838, issued on July 29, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Hajime Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve viewing angle characteristics by varying voltage which is applied between liquid crystal elements. A liquid crystal display device in which one pixel is provided with three or more liquid crystal elements and the level of voltage which is applied is varied between the liquid crystal elements is varied. In order to vary the level of the voltage which is applied between the liquid crystal elements, an element which divid...