ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,547, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Mie, Japan).
"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Mitsuaki Hirata (Kameyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a first, second, third, and fourth domains arranged in two rows and two columns, and reference alignment directions of the respective domains are first, second, third, and fourth directions. The first direction and the second direction form an angle of approximately 180deg, and the first domain and the second domain are adjacent to each other in an oblique direction. The pixel electro...