ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,816, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Light-emitting device" was invented by Yoshiharu Hirakata (Ebina, Japan), Yasuhiro Jinbo (Isehara, Japan) and Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device can be folded in such a manner that a flexible light-emitting panel is supported by a plurality of housings which are provided spaced from each other and the light-emitting panel is bent so that surfaces of adjacent housings are in contact with each other. Furthermore, in the light-emitting device, in which part or the whole of the housings ha...