ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,326, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Touch sensor integration with enlarged active area displays" was invented by Chun-Yen Liu (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Ion Bita (Los Altos, Calif.), Young Seok Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Premal Parekh (Milpitas, Calif.) and Chiaching Chu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques directed to touch sensor integration with enlarged active area displays. In aspects, a display includes a cover layer, an array of pixels, and a plurality of transistors that control an electrical activation of one or more pixels o...