US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on May 13 for "Display device comprising pixel portion and non-linear element including oxide semiconductor layer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,691, issued on May 13, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Display device comprising pixel portion and non-linear element including oxide semiconductor layer" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, Japan), Kengo Akimoto (Atsugi, Japan), Shigeki Komori (Isehara, Japan), Hideki Uochi (Atsugi, Japan), Tomoya Futamura (Atsugi, Japan) and Takahiro Kasahara (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective circuit includes a non-linear element which includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer covering the gate electrode, a first oxide semiconductor layer overlapping with the gate ...