ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,242, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Organic device and manufacturing method for organic device" was invented by Naoki Nishimura (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yano (Tokyo), Yusuke Nakamura (Tokyo), Isao Miyatani (Tokyo) and Yoko Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic device includes an outer edge, a wiring area and a display area that includes a first electrode, an organic layer on the first electrode and a second electrode on the organic layer. The wiring area includes a reference electrode connected to the second electrode and defining a reference potential. The display area includes ...