ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,984, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nissha Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Display device and method for manufacturing display device" was invented by Shun Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Masaru Terashita (Kyoto, Japan), Jun Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan), Chuzo Taniguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Kenichiro Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first groove is formed in a first main surface of a light guide member. A decorative layer is molded with the light guide member and provided on a second main surface of the light guide member. The decorative layer includes a first light-emitting portion that radiates the visible light emitted from a fir...