ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,148, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Display device" was invented by Yu-Syuan Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Liang Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Ting Hsiao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Peng-Yu Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Hung Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display panel and a switch panel. The switch panel includes a first substrate disposed on the display panel, a shielding pattern layer, a light transmitting layer, pixel electrodes disposed on the light transmitting layer, a second substrate disposed on the pixel electrodes, and ...