ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,453, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Light-emitting device" was invented by Tokiyoshi Umeda (Sakai, Japan), Yuto Tsukamoto (Sakai, Japan), Bai Zhang (Sakai, Japan) and Shinichi Kawato (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element in which a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode are sequentially layered toward a light-emitting face side. The plurality of light-emitting elements include a first light-emitting element configured to emit light of a first color, a second light-emitting element configured to emit light of a ...