ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,557, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MAGNOLIA WHITE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical device" was invented by Jin Hirosawa (Tokyo), Yoshinori Tanaka (Tokyo) and Masanobu Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an optical device includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element, a light-shielding layer disposed to overlap a gap between the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element and including a first opening overlapping the first light-emitting element and a second opening overlapping the second light-emitting element, an overcoat layer covering the light-shi...