ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,336, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Method for producing light emitting element, and light emitting element" was invented by Takahiro Adachi (Sakai City, Japan) and Yasushi Asaoka (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes a) forming an intermediate layer containing a first resin on a charge transport layer, b) forming a light-emitting layer containing a second resin, a second photosensitive material, and a first luminescent material on the intermediate layer, c) exposing the intermediate layer and the light-emitting layer in a pr...