ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,564, issued on July 28, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light-sensing device" was invented by Yu-Nung Mao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chao-Chien Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-sensing device comprises a substrate, multiple first working light-sensing elements, multiple second working light-sensing elements, multiple third working light-sensing elements, multiple first reference light-sensing elements, multiple second reference light-sensing elements, multiple third reference light-sensing elements, a first processing element, and a second processing element. The substrate has a first working area...