ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,705, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Display device" was invented by Yi Sun (Sakai, Japan), Masaki Yamanaka (Sakai, Japan), Takao Saitoh (Sakai, Japan), Yohsuke Kanzaki (Sakai, Japan) and Masahiko Miwa (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device in accordance with the disclosure includes a substrate, an insular semiconductor layer, a gate insulation film, a plurality of control lines extending in a row direction, a first interlayer insulation film, and a plurality of data signal lines extending in a column direction, all of which are provided in a stated order. The insular semiconductor...