ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,630, issued on May 13, was assigned to Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Display panel and array substrate thereof" was invented by Yuchen Hou (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a groove in an area on a buffer layer that is directly opposite to a slit of a pixel electrode, so as to accommodate an alignment film in a corresponding area and increase a thickness of the alignment film. An increase in the thickness of the alignment film increases an anchoring force to liquid crystal molecules in the corresponding area, which make...