ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,096, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Masahiro Date (Kameyama, Japan), Kazuhide Akita (Kameyama, Japan), Eiji Shinohara (Kameyama, Japan), Shota Nozaki (Kameyama, Japan), Tadashi Okamoto (Kameyama, Japan), Kazuyoshi Hamanaka (Kameyama, Japan) and Hiroto Akiyama (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a plurality of first color filters not intersecting a non-linear portion with at least a part of an outer shape of a display region being non-linear, a plurality of second color filters at least part of which intersects t...