ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,495, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Oikawa (Chitose, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optical device includes a display area configured to display an image and a peripheral area provided outside the display area in plan view. The electro-optical device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and an electro-optical layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and having an optical characteristic changing in accordance with an electric field. One or both of th...