ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,208, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Display device" was invented by Takao Saitoh (Sakai, Japan), Yohsuke Kanzaki (Sakai, Japan), Masaki Yamanaka (Sakai, Japan) and Yi Sun (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a base substrate, a thin film transistor layer and a light-emitting element layer. An insular non-display area is provided internal to a display area. A through hole extends in a direction of a thickness of the base substrate in a non-display area. A separation wall is provided in the non-display area so as to surround the through hole. The separation wall includes...