ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,162, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"UV irradiation device" was invented by Kentaro Okuyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UV irradiation device comprises a light source unit including a plurality of light sources irradiating ultraviolet light and a control unit adjusting an amount of ultraviolet light irradiated from the light source unit toward a surface of a liquid crystal cell having at least a partially curved surface. The control unit adjusts the amount of ultraviolet light irradiated from the light source unit toward the surface of the liquid crystal cell so that an illuminance of the u...