ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,866, issued on April 21, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Display device" was invented by Yu-Hsin Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chia-An Lee (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yi-Hong Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Kuan-Heng Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a light source having a light emitting surface configured to emit light, a light transmitting layer covering the light source and having a light exit surface configured to receive the light emitted from the light emitting surface, a first metasurface formed between the light emitting surface and the light transmitting layer and configured to ...