ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,493, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Takayuki Nishiyama (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic EL display device includes the following: scanning line; data lines intersecting with the scanning lines; initialization lines; sub-pixel circuits provided to correspond to points of intersection between the scanning lines and data lines; and organic EL elements OLED provided to correspond to the sub-pixel circuits. The scanning signal lines, the data signal lines, the initialization power-source lines, the sub-pixel circuits and the light emitters are arranged ...