ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,696, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Display device" was invented by Tohru Okabe (Sakai, Japan), Shinsuke Saida (Sakai, Japan), Shinji Ichikawa (Sakai, Japan) and Ryosuke Gunji (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor layer including a plurality of thin film transistors; a light-emitting element layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements; a display region; and an electronic component disposed on a back face side of the display region, wherein the light-emitting element layer includes a first electrode, an edge cover, a light-e...