US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on Oct. 21 for "Display device that includes light blocking portion with inclined portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,693, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Display device that includes light blocking portion with inclined portion" was invented by Noboru Matsuda (Kameyama, Japan) and Shinpei Higashida (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a light blocking portion and a slit. A portion of an upper layer electrode overlapping a lower layer electrode is provided with a slit extending along a second direction inclined with respect to a first direction. An inclined portion extending along a third direction inclined toward the same side as the second direction with res...