US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on Aug. 5 for "Touch panel and touch panel manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,817, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Touch panel and touch panel manufacturing method" was invented by Takao Saitoh (Kameyama, Japan), Yohsuke Kanzaki (Kameyama, Japan), Masaki Yamanaka (Kameyama, Japan), Masahiko Miwa (Kameyama, Japan), Yi Sun (Kameyama, Japan) and Masaki Fujiwara (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel includes: a first metal wire formed on an underlayer; an insulating film formed to cover the first metal wire; and a second metal wire formed on the insulating film. The second metal wire has: a first pattern extending in a first direction; and...