ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,595, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Display device having an optical adjustment element switchable between light changing states" was invented by Tazuko Kitazawa (Sakai City, Japan), Yoshihiro Ueta (Sakai City, Japan), Eiji Satoh (Sakai City, Japan) and Zenken Kin (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This display device includes a first electrode and a second electrode overlapping each other in a plan view, a light-emitting layer containing quantum dots and overlapping the first electrode and the second electrode in a plan view, a third electrode capable of forming an electrical fie...