US Patent Issued to Magnolia White on June 16 for "Liquid crystal panel with bent electrode branches" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,642, issued on June 16, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal panel with bent electrode branches" was invented by Yoshihiro Sakurai (Kanagawa, Japan), Hironao Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Harumi Okuno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeo Koito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal panel is provided and includes first and second substrates with liquid crystal layer therebetween; and first electrode in display region; second electrode disposed between first electrode and first substrate; and alignment film having alignment direction, wherein first electrode has: pair of electrode branches; slit be...