ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,702, issued on May 13, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Semiconductor device including storage capacitor having pixel electrode, directly stacked conductive layer, and insulating layer interposed between them, wherein the stacked conductive layers extending towards the gate and source wirings/lines" was invented by Hajime Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a semiconductor device with high aperture ratio or a manufacturing method thereof. Another object is to provide semiconductor device with low power consumption or a manufacturing method ther...