ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,692, issued on May 27, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Shinichi Kawamura (Tokyo), Nobuo Imai (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a first lower electrode, a rib including a first pixel aperture, a partition including a lower portion on the rib and an upper portion protruding from a side surface of the lower portion, a first upper electrode, and a first organic layer between the first lower electrode and the first upper electrode. The lower portion includes a bottom layer and a stem layer on the bottom layer....