ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,041, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Array substrate with quasi-ohmic contact layer and photosensitive semiconductor layer and display panel" was invented by Yanlan Tan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a base and a thin-film transistor disposed on a side of the base, and a turn-on voltage of a gate of the thin-film transistor can be reduced by a sensing effect of the thin-film transistor on external or internal light, so that power consumption of the display pan...