ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,542, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Light-emitting element, display apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo), Shingo Eguchi (Atsugi, Japan) and Hideki Uochi (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a novel light-emitting element. The light-emitting element includes an anode, an EL layer over the anode, and a cathode over the EL layer; a first layer is adjacent to a side surface of the EL layer, and a first portion is adjacent to the side surface of the first layer. The EL layer and the first portion are adjacent to each other with ...