US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 20 for "Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,811, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Tomoki Yokota (Suwa, Japan) and Kikuya Morita (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optical device including a capacitance element, a first insulating film serving as an insulating film, and a scanning line serving as a light shielding film, is provided. The first insulating film covers the capacitance element and includes a concave portion serving as a recessed portion that reflects a shape of the capacitance element. The scanning line is provided along the concave portion. The con...