ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,678, issued on April 21, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light emitting panel" was invented by Kuo-Hsuan Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Bo-Ru Jian (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting panel includes a driving backplane, light-emitting diode elements and at least one transparent electrode. The driving backplane has pads and at least one common electrode. Each of the light-emitting diode elements has a P-type semiconductor layer, an N-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer disposed between the P-type semiconductor layer and the N-type semiconductor layer, and a bonding electrode electri...