ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,663, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SHOEI CHEMICAL INC. (Tokyo).

"Flexible electroluminescent devices" was invented by Donald A. Zehnder (San Carlos, Calif.), Dylan C. Hamilton (Oakland, Calif.), Ruiqing Ma (Morristown, N.J.) and Jesse R. Manders (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a flexible electroluminescent (EL) device are described. An EL device includes a device stack and a flexible substrate configured to support the device stack. The device stack can include a anode and a cathode, a quantum dot (QD) film positioned between the anode and the cathode and configured to produce light having a fi...