ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,766, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Ryuzo Yuki (Kameyama, Japan), Naru Usukura (Kameyama, Japan), Junichi Masuda (Kameyama, Japan) and Shugo Yagi (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight module configured to switch between first light having a maximum luminance in a first direction and second light having a maximum luminance in a second direction different from the first direction and emit the first light and the second light from a main surface, a liquid crystal display pane...