ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,893, issued on April 21, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Active matrix substrate and liquid crystal display device" was invented by Tatsuya Kawasaki (Kameyama City, Japan), Tohru Daitoh (Kameyama City, Japan), Hajime Imai (Kameyama City, Japan), Teruyuki Ueda (Kameyama City, Japan), Masaki Maeda (Kameyama City, Japan), Yoshiharu Hirata (Kameyama City, Japan) and Yoshihito Hara (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active matrix substrate includes pixel regions each including a pixel electrode and an oxide semiconductor TFT including an oxide semiconductor layer. Each pixel el...