ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,879, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Display device including projecting shaped bank portion" was invented by Takao Saitoh (Kameyama City, Japan), Yohsuke Kanzaki (Kameyama City, Japan), Masaki Yamanaka (Kameyama City, Japan), Masahiko Miwa (Kameyama City, Japan), Yi Sun (Kameyama City, Japan) and Masaki Fujiwara (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an organic EL display device, a frame region provided outside a display region is provided with a damming wall extending on an outer periphery of the display region and a second lead-out wiring line extending acro...