ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,533, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Display device capable of measuring degradation in one sub-pixel out of two sub-pixels" was invented by Hiroyuki Furukawa (Sakai, Japan), Masafumi Ueno (Sakai, Japan) and Chie Toridono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels each provided with a first subpixel and a second subpixel; a storage unit that stores degradation information indicating an amount of decrease in light emission efficiency of one of the first subpixel or the second subpixel; and a control unit that corrects an input vid...