ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,584, issued on March 31, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Display apparatus, display module, and electronic device" was invented by Daisuke Kubota (Kanagawa, Japan), Taisuke Kamada (Saitama, Japan), Ryo Hatsumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Kusunoki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazunori Watanabe (Tokyo) and Susumu Kawashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The resolution of a display apparatus having a light detection function is increased. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting device and a light-emitting and light-receiving device. The light-emitting device includes a first pixel e...