ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,531, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Transparent display apparatus" was invented by YuTang Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wang-Shuo Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia Hao Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kun-Cheng Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent display apparatus includes a transparent substrate, a first pixel array and a light leakage suppression element. The transparent substrate has display areas and transparent areas. The first pixel array is disposed on the transparent substrate and includes first pixels and first openings. Each of the first pixel overlaps with a corresponding display ...