US Patent Issued to JAPAN DISPLAY on May 26 for "Reflect array" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,492, issued on May 26, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Reflect array" was invented by Mitsutaka Okita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflect array includes a patch electrode, a ground electrode arranged opposite the patch electrode and spaced apart from the patch electrode, a liquid crystal layer between the patch electrode and the ground electrode, and a dielectric substrate on an opposite side of the patch electrode from the liquid crystal layer. A thickness T from a surface on the liquid crystal layer side of the patch electrode to a surface on the opposite side of the dielectric substrate from the patch elect...