ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,373, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Tetsuro Ochi (Tokyo), Ken Sugiyama (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Tsubota (Tokyo) and Kazunari Nishita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device is provided and includes a liquid crystal display panel; and a backlight device opposed to the liquid crystal display panel; the backlight device including a frame-shaped structure with a first surface and a second surface, the second surface facing the liquid crystal display panel and being located between the liquid crystal display panel and the first surface; a reflective sheet adherin...