ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,755, issued on Aug. 11.
"Displays with data lines that accommodate openings" was invented by Shin-Hung Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan), Warren S Rieutort-Louis (Cupertino, Calif.), Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari (Saratoga, Calif.), Chien-Ya Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Lun Tsai (Zhubei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To minimize the width of a non-light-emitting border region around an opening in the active area, data lines may be stacked in the border region. Data line portions may be formed using three metal layers in three different planes within the border region. A metal layer that forms a positive power signal distribution path in the active ...