US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Sept. 16 for "Optical functional device, functional panel, display device, input/output device, and data processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,180, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Optical functional device, functional panel, display device, input/output device, and data processing device" was invented by Taisuke Kamada (Niiza, Japan), Yasuhiro Niikura (Komae, Japan), Daisuke Kubota (Atsugi, Japan), Ryo Hatsumi (Hadano, Japan), Akio Yamashita (Atsugi, Japan), Sachiko Kawakami (Atsugi, Japan) and Satoshi Seo (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel optical functional device that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The optical functional device includes a light-emitting function...