ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,658, issued on July 8, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input/output device includes a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode. In addition, the input/output device includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are electrodes for a display element, and a substrate sandwiched between the first sensor electrode and the second sensor electrode. The second sensor electrode is formed concurrently with ...