ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,131, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).
"Photoelectric conversion panel" was invented by Rikiya Takita (Kameyama, Japan) and Fumiki Nakano (Kameyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion panel includes: a substrate; a gate line and a data line formed on the substrate; a pixel transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a photoelectric conversion element connected to the pixel transistor; an electro-static-discharge protection circuit formed on the substrate and connected to a ground; a depletion transistor for protection connected between either ...