ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,634, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Active matrix substrate and display panel" was invented by Yohsuke Fujikawa (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active matrix substrate includes a glass substrate 26, a plurality of pixel electrodes 40 arrayed in a matrix, a plurality of TFTs 43, a plurality of common electrodes 42, a terminal group 60 provided at one end of a Y-axis direction on top of the glass substrate 26 and constituted by a plurality of terminals 61 and 62 placed along an X-axis direction, wires 71 that electrically connect the terminals 61 to the TFTs 43, and wires 72 that electrica...