ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,497, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to E INK HOLDINGS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrophoretic display device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Shu-Fen Tsai (Zhubei, Taiwan), Hsien-Yi Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ming-Kai Chuang (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Puru Howard Shieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophoretic display device includes a backplane structure, a buffer layer, a spacer wall, a display medium, an upper substrate and an upper electrode. The backplane structure includes a lower substrate, a transistor formed on the lower substrate, and a lower electrode electrically connected to the tra...