ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,786, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, display apparatus, photoelectric conversion apparatus, electronic equipment, illumination apparatus, and moving object" was invented by Tetsuo Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaro Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Sano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yojiro Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including sub-pixels arranged on a substrate, the sub-pixels including a first, a second, and a third sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels including a lower electrode, an insulating layer covering an end portion of the low...