ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,386, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Liquid crystal display device" was invented by Shuji Nishi (Kameyama, Japan) and Keiichi Ina (Kameyama, 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, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and has pixels. Each pixel includes a reflective region in which to perform a display in a reflective mode. The first substrate includes a substrate, gate lines extending in a row-wise direction, source lines extending in a column-wise di...