ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,771, issued on June 23, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Transmissive display device" was invented by Jia Hao Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yutang Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kun-Cheng Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shu-Hao Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmissive display device includes a circuit substrate, pixel units, first light-shielding structures, a transparent covering layer, a hole filling portion and a cover lens. Each pixel unit includes light emitting diodes. Each first light-shielding structure is disposed corresponding to a corresponding one of the pixel units. Each first light-shielding struct...