ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,641, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Hiroyuki Madono (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of inversely tapered protruding portions are provided so as to surround a through-hole in a non-display region, each of the plurality of inversely tapered protruding portions includes a resin portion constituted by a resin substrate layer and separated by a plurality of substrate slits, and inorganic insulating layers provided on the resin portion, a first inorganic encapsulation film covers the plurality of inversely tapered ...