ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,183, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Touch panel" was invented by Hideaki Shishido (Atsugi, Japan), Daisuke Kubota (Atsugi, Japan) and Yusuke Kubota (Atsugi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a thin touch panel, a touch panel having a simple structure, a touch panel which can be easily incorporated into an electronic device, or a touch panel with a small number of components. The touch panel includes pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of first wirings extending in a direction parallel to ...