ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,584, issued on March 25, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Ryoichi Nozawa (Tatsuno-machi, Japan), Atsushi Amano (Shiojiri, Japan), Takeshi Koshihara (Matsumoto, Japan), Akio Fukase (Chino, Japan) and Shinichi Iwata (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element that have a resonance structure that causes output light from a light-emission functional layer to resonate between a reflective layer and a semi-transmissive reflective layer, and a pixel definition layer, and in which an aperture part is...