ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,415, issued on June 17, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Touch panel" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, Japan), Yoshiharu Hirakata (Ebina, Japan) and Hiroyuki Miyake (Atsugi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible touch panel is provided. Both reduction in thickness and high sensitivity of a touch panel are achieved. The touch panel includes a first flexible substrate, a first insulating layer over the first substrate, a transistor and a light-emitting element over the first insulating layer, a color filter over the light-emitting element, a pair of sensor electrodes over t...