ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,320, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh (Kameyama City, Japan), Takehisa Yoshida (Kameyama City, Japan), Shinichi Terashita (Kameyama City, Japan) and Kouichi Watanabe (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer; a polarizer; and a phase difference layer, the liquid crystal display device further including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a ...