ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,704, issued on June 24, was assigned to JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K. (Tokyo).

"Self-luminous display panel having different optical distances between light-shielding film and light emission reference points depending on light emission color" was invented by Kenta Fukuoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-luminous display panel in which pixels composed of sub-pixels are arranged, including light-emitting elements and a light-shielding film. The light-emitting elements correspond one-to-one with the sub-pixels, each sub-pixel in a pixel emitting a different color of light. The light-shielding film is provided with opening...