ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,581, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Organic layer removal in displays having transparent openings" was invented by Shyuan Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari (Saratoga, Calif.), Guanxiong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Jae Won Choi (San Jose, Calif.), Kyounghwan Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Prashant Mandlik (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ricardo A Peterson (Fremont, Calif.), Sungki Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ting-Kuo Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Tsung-Ting Tsai (San Jose, Calif.), Wan-Ching Hsu (San Jose, Calif.), Warren S Rieutort-Louis (Cupertino, Calif.), Weixin Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yuchi Che (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* releas...