ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,517, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent display device includes a driving backplane, a light-emitting element, a first planarization layer, a first light-shielding layer, a second planarization layer and a second light-shielding layer. The light-emitting element is disposed on the driving backplane. The first planarization layer covers the light-emitting element....