US Patent Issued to Sharp on March 24 for "Electronic paper and control method of electronic paper" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,544, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Electronic paper and control method of electronic paper" was invented by Osamu Uratani (Sakai, Japan) and Yukio Yokoyama (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic paper includes a display panel, a temperature sensor, and a controlling section. The display panel contains particles which move when a voltage is applied. The temperature sensor detects a temperature. The controlling section controls a rewriting operation to rewrite an image of the display panel by applying a rewriting voltage to the color particles. If a result of detection by the temperat...