ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,473, issued on April 7, was assigned to AmTRAN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Touch screen and image display method thereof" was invented by He-Gang Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Che-Chia Ho (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yen-Chou Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch screen includes a power supply unit, configured to supply power; an image capturing unit, configured to capture images; a storage unit, configured to temporarily store screen content; an image display unit, configured to display the screen content; and a processing unit, coupled to the power supply unit, the image capturing...