ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,440, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Mohammad Reza Kazemi (Sakai, Japan), Masafumi Ueno (Sakai, Japan), Masaaki Moriya (Sakai, Japan), Naoki Shiobara (Sakai, Japan), Masafumi Kawai (Sakai, Japan) and Hiroyuki Furukawa (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display panel including a group of pixels; a control unit configured to execute deterioration monitoring for detecting a decrease in luminous efficiency of the group of pixels and first high-speed monitoring for determining whether to execute the deterioration monitoring, the first high-...