ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,949, issued on April 14, was assigned to E Ink Holdings Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Color electrophoretic display" was invented by Ian French (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Yuan Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Liang-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The color electrophoretic display includes a display region, a pixel array, a display medium layer, and a color filter array. The display region includes multiple sub-pixel regions. The pixel array corresponds to the display region in position. The display medium layer is located on the pixel array. The color filter array is located on the display medium layer. The color filter array i...