ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,342, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Display device" 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: "A display device includes a display panel including a base substrate layer, a thin film transistor layer, a light-emitting element layer, and a sealing film, and includes an image capturing unit provided on the base substrate layer side of a display regio...