ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,861, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Electroluminescent element and electroluminescent device each having electron transport layer including n-type semiconductor particles and insulating polymer" was invented by Noboru Iwata (Sakai, Japan), Hisayuki Utsumi (Sakai, Japan) and Yoshihiro Ueta (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroluminescent element including an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode, in which the electroluminescent element further includes an electron transport layer [[(33) including n-type semiconductor particles and a fir...