US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on July 1 for "Scanning signal line drive circuit and display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,399, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Scanning signal line drive circuit and display device" was invented by Jun Nishimura (Kameyama, Japan), Yoshihito Hara (Kameyama, Japan), Masaki Maeda (Kameyama, Japan), Yoshiharu Hirata (Kameyama, Japan), Hideki Kitagawa (Kameyama, Japan), Masamitsu Yamanaka (Kameyama, Japan) and Tohru Daitoh (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In each of unit circuits that constitute a shift register, a first conduction terminal of a second thin-film transistor that controls the output of an output signal serving as a scanning signal is given a seco...