ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,716, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Luminance sensor for bent display" was invented by Masafumi Ueno (Sakai, Japan), Masaaki Moriya (Sakai, Japan), Naoki Shiobara (Sakai, Japan) and Masafumi Kawai (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate with a display area and a bending area; and a luminance sensor. The display area and the bending area each include a pixel circuit including a light-emitting element that is self-luminous. The bending area is bent from the display area. The luminance sensor measures luminance of the light-emitting element in the bending area." ...