ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,317, issued on May 12, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Kentaro Okuyama (Tokyo), Yuuji Oomori (Tokyo) and Makoto Miyao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a transparent substrate, a fixing member, and a first light source unit. The transparent substrate has a first main face, a first incident face which is a first side face in contact with the first main face at a first edge, and a first non-incident face which is a second side face in contact with the first main face at a second edge. A shape of the first incident fac...