ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,987, issued on July 1, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Wiring substrate and display device" was invented by Junichi Morinaga (Kameyama, Japan), Shingo Kamitani (Kameyama, Japan) and Hikaru Yoshino (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring substrate includes a first wiring and a second wiring that intersects the first wiring. The first wiring is formed of a lower-layer wiring portion formed of a first conductive film and an upper-layer wiring portion formed of a second conductive film disposed on an upper layer side of the first conductive film via a first insulating film. A first conta...