ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,694, issued on May 13, was assigned to Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Organic electroluminescent devices" was invented by Siddharth Harikrishna Mohan (Plainsboro, N.J.), William E. Quinn (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Ruiqing Ma (Morristown, N.J.), Emory Krall (Philadelphia) and Luke Walski (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel thin film encapsulated OLED panel architecture and a method for making the panels with improved shelf life is disclosed. The OLED panel consists of a plurality of OLED pixels; each OLED pixel is individually hermetically sealed and isolated from its neighboring pixels. The organic stack...