ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,721, issued on May 26, was assigned to HannStar Display Corp. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Reflective display device" was invented by Chun-Ming Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yen-Chung Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia Jung Wu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chao-Yun Wu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wei-Chih Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflective display device including a reflective display panel, a front light module, a first polarizer, at least one light control film and a transparent display panel is provided. The front light module is disposed on one side of the reflective display panel and includes a light guide plate and...