ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,423, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Display device" was invented by Tomokazu Ishikawa (Tokyo), Masaru Nakakomi (Tokyo) and Masateru Morimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first pixels overlapping with a display area and second pixels overlapping with a surrounding area, color filters corresponding to each of the first pixels, and a first light-shielding layer including an aperture overlapping with each of the first and second pixels. The second ...