ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,495, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Transparent display" was invented by Yi-Chen Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yao-Jun Tsai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ming-Hsien Wu (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent display includes a transparent substrate, a wiring layer, a plurality of light-emitting package units, and a plurality of connecting elements. The wiring layer is disposed on a surface of the transparent substrate. Each of the light-emitting package units includes a micro-substrate, frontward light-emitting elements, backward light-emitting eleme...