ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,734, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Display device and display device production method" was invented by Hiroki Imabayashi (Osaka, Japan), Masayuki Kanehiro (Osaka, Japan), Hisayuki Utsumi (Osaka, Japan), Shota Okamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yohei Nakanishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device provided with a display region including a plurality of pixels and a frame region surrounding the display region includes a thin film transistor layer, a light-emitting element layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements, each including a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and...