ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,639, issued on July 28, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo) and IDEMITSU KOSAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Hajime Watakabe (Tokyo), Masashi Tsubuku (Tokyo), Toshinari Sasaki (Tokyo) and Takaya Tamaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display panel including a display portion having a plurality of pixels; and a sensor element disposed on a rear side of the display portion. The display portion has a first region overlapping the sensor element and a second region other than the first region in a plan view. Each of the plurality of pixels has a semiconductor device including a...