ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,099, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).
"Detector" was invented by Kei Ikuta (Kameyama City, Japan), Tomohiro Kosaka (Kameyama City, Japan), Yuuki Ootsuka (Kameyama City, Japan) and Reshan Maduka Abeysinghe (Kameyama City, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode with a space and forming a flow path for charged particles as objects to be detected between the first electrode and the second electrode, a third electrode arranged side by side with the second electrode on a downstream side in the flow pat...