ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,243, issued on May 19, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Active matrix substrate" was invented by Masahiko Suzuki (Kameyama City, Japan), Tetsuo Kikuchi (Kameyama City, Japan), Setsuji Nishimiya (Kameyama City, Japan), Kengo Hara (Kameyama City, Japan), Hitoshi Takahata (Kameyama City, Japan) and Tohru Daitoh (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active matrix substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs each including an oxide semiconductor layer, a lower gate electrode positioned on the substrate side of the oxide semiconductor layer, and an upper gat...