US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 23 for "Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and method of manufacturing light- emitting element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,783, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and method of manufacturing light- emitting element" was invented by Kanako Nakata (Sakai City, Japan), Tatsuya Ryohwa (Sakai City, Japan) and Makoto Izumi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting element includes: an anode; a cathode; and a light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer contains quantum dots and ligands, the ligands are a polymer including at least two repeating units, and each repeating unit includes, at an end of at least one sid...