ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,317, issued on June 2, was assigned to E Ink Holdings Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Touch display device" was invented by Hung Wei Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi Chun Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch display device including a pixel array substrate, a touch substrate, a display medium layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a conductor is provided. The touch substrate is disposed above the pixel array substrate. The display medium layer is disposed between the pixel array substrate and the touch substrate. The first conductive layer is disposed on one surf...