ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,200, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to E INK Corp. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Electrophoretic display having dielectric coating on electrode" was invented by Karl Raymond Amundson (Cambridge, Mass.), Kosta Ladavac (Somerville, Mass.), Stephen J. Telfer (Arlington, Mass.), Dan John Lauber (Somerville, Mass.) and Darwin Scott Bull (Harvard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophoretic display (100) comprises an electrophoretic medium (114) having electrically charged particles disposed in a fluid and capable of moving through the fluid on application of an electric field. An electrode (104, 120) is disposed adjacent the electroph...