US Patent Issued to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Active matrix substrate and display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,878, issued on March 4, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Active matrix substrate and display device" was invented by Hikaru Yoshino (Kameyama, Japan), Satoshi Horiuchi (Kameyama, Japan) and Junichi Morinaga (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active matrix substrate includes a substrate in which a notch or an aperture is formed, and electrodes. Each electrode includes at least either of: a capacitor forming portion that is arranged in a region other than a bypass region and overlaps with at least one of a plurality of bypass gate lines when viewed in a plan view; and an electrode layer...