ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,957, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).
"Scanning signal line drive circuit and display device provided with same" was invented by Masafumi Sugino (Kameyama City, Japan), Tohru Daitoh (Kameyama City, Japan), Hajime Imai (Kameyama City, Japan), Tatsuya Kawasaki (Kameyama City, Japan), Yohei Takeuchi (Kameyama City, Japan) and Kengo Hara (Kameyama City, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a unit circuit constituting a shift register, as a constituent element for changing the potential of a node (first control node) connected to the gate terminal of an output control transistor ...