ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,358, issued on March 24, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Display device and method for manufacturing display device" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, Japan) and Kenichi Okazaki (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a display device that can easily achieve higher resolution is provided. A display device having both high display quality and high resolution is provided. A first EL film is deposited over a first pixel electrode, a first sacrificial film is formed to cover the first EL film and a first electrode, and the first sacrificial film and th...