US Patent Issued to Sharp on Feb. 24 for "Active matrix substrate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,838, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of gate bus lines, a plurality of source bus lines located closer to the substrate side; a lower insulating layer that covers the source bus lines; an interlayer insulating layer that covers the gate bus lines; a plurality of oxide se...