ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,071, issued on March 18, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Satoshi Yoshimoto (Isehara, Japan), Susumu Kawashima (Atsugi, Japan), Koji Kusunoki (Isehara, Japan) and Kazunori Watanabe (Machida, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a biometric recognition function and a touch sensor or near touch sensor function is provided. The semiconductor device includes a light-emitting device and an imaging device. The imaging device includes a gate driver circuit and m rows of pixels (m is an integer more than or equal to 2). The gate ...