ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,643, issued on May 6, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Shuichi Osawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a drive circuit configured to drive the pixel, a light source device configured to emit emitted light toward the display panel, a color separation element placed between the display panel and the light source device, the color separation element being configured to disperse the emitted light and to emit, to the pixel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other, and a light-shielding m...