ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,540, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Liquid crystal panel and display device" was invented by Junichi Masuda (Kameyama, Japan) and Koji Murata (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer that is located between the first substrate and the second substrate and contains liquid crystal molecules, a pair of electrodes that apply a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, and a voltage control unit that performs control to alternately apply a first voltage...