ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,080, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).
"Active matrix substrate and display device" was invented by Hitoshi Takahata (Kameyama, Japan), Tohru Daitoh (Kameyama, Japan), Tetsuo Kikuchi (Kameyama, Japan), Masahiko Suzuki (Kameyama, Japan) and Setsuji Nishimiya (Kameyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active matrix substrate includes a pixel TFT including an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer provided on the oxide semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode disposed so as to face the oxide semiconductor layer with the gate insulating layer interposed therebetween,...