ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,841, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to JSR Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Yoshihiko Kuroda (Tokyo) and Koichi Miyachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first and/or second alignment film is a photo-alignment film on which alignment division is performed. Each pixel has multiple alignment regions having different alignment directions of liquid crystal molecules of a liquid crystal layer by the alignment division. The number of times of exposure in each alignment region for the alignment division is two or more and the same number among the regions; in each time o...