US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on March 4 for "Semiconductor device and display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,147, issued on March 4, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and display device" was invented by Ryo Hatsumi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tetsuji Ishitani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An increase in fabricating cost of a display module including a touch sensor is suppressed. A display device which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and liquid crystal interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate includes a display portion. The display portion includes a sensor unit and a pixel. The sensor unit includes a first transistor, a fir...