ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,777, issued on April 29, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Yoshinori Tanaka (Tokyo), Jin Hirosawa (Tokyo) and Masanobu Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a first planarization film including an opening, a reflective film provided on an inclined surface inside the opening in the first planarization film, an LED chip surrounded by the reflective film and provided inside the opening, and a second planarization film provided on the first planarization film, surrounding the LED chip, and filling the opening, wherein a height from an upper end of the inclined surf...