ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,458, issued on July 29, was assigned to JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K. (Tokyo).

"Organic EL element, organic EL panel, and organic EL element manufacturing method" was invented by Toshiyuki Akiyama (Tokyo), Shinichiro Ishino (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Sekimoto (Tokyo), Muneharu Sato (Tokyo), Takeshi Kamiya (Tokyo), Tomohiko Oda (Tokyo), Mineki Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Masakazu Takata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic EL element including an anode, a first functional layer including organic material, disposed above the anode, a second functional layer including organic material, disposed on and in contact with the first functional ...