ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,086, issued on April 8, was assigned to TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"LCD panel and LCD device" was invented by Ting Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and an LCD device. In the LCD panel, a first metal layer and a second metal layer are connected to a metal connection layer through a first via hole and a second via hole, respectively. A difference between a depth of the first via hole and a depth of the second via hole is smaller than a sum of thicknesses of a gate insulating layer, an active layer, and t...