ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,596, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light-emitting element and display device" was invented by Koji Matsusaki (Kumamoto, Japan), Kiyoshi Kaneuchi (Kumamoto, Japan), Koji Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Motoyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouhei Sugiyama (Aichi, Japan) and Chugen Hamachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting element (10) includes: a light-emitting part (30) including a light-emitting region; a first optical path control unit (71) which has positive optical power and to which light emitted from the light-emitting region enters; a second optical path...