ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,874, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Junichi Yamada (Sakai, Japan), Makoto Yokoyama (Sakai, Japan) and Naoki Ueda (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits, a scanning line, an initialization control line, a light emission control line, an initialization voltage line, a first connection line, and a second connection line. The first connection line and the second connection line connect the scanning line to the initialization control line connected to, of the plurality of pixel circuits, a pixel circuit different...