ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,927, issued on July 14, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing image display device and image display device" was invented by Hajime Akimoto (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an image display device according to an embodiment includes forming a graphene layer on a first substrate, forming a semiconductor layer including a light-emitting layer on the graphene layer, forming the light-emitting element by patterning the semiconductor layer so that the light-emitting element includes a bottom surface on the graphene layer and a light-emitting surface at a side opposite t...