ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,667, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Manufacturing displays with an encapsulation layer" was invented by Mahendra Chhabra (Los Gatos, Calif.), Peng Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alejandro X Levander (El Granada, Calif.), Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran (San Mateo, Calif.), Jitsuo Ota (Kawasaki, Japan), Tae Woon Cha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhibing Ge (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hannah Elmaraghi (San Diego) and Junhwan Lim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may include a substrate, an array of pixels formed on the substrate, at least one encapsulation layer that is formed over the arra...