ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,436, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Yasushi Asaoka (Sakai, Japan), Sentaro Kida (Sakai, Japan) and Jun Sakuma (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a substrate; a flattened layer; at least one first light-emitting element; at least one second light-emitting element; at least one first drive circuit; and at least one second drive circuit, wherein light emitted by the first light-emitting element is taken out through the substrate, light emitted by the second light-emitting element is taken out from a direction opposite to a direction in ...