US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on May 20 for "Liquid crystal display device comprising electrodes each having a plurality of slits that form an acute angle with a short side of the electrodes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,503, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Mie, Japan).

"Liquid crystal display device comprising electrodes each having a plurality of slits that form an acute angle with a short side of the electrodes" was invented by Junichi Morinaga (Kameyama, Japan), Hiroyuki Ohgami (Kameyama, Japan) and Hikaru Yoshino (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal display device includes source wiring lines, and first electrode and second electrode configured to generate a fringe electrical field. The first electrode includes slits. Each slit forms an acute angle with pixel short-hand direction defi...