ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,649, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Transparent touch display device" was invented by Hwi Deuk Lee (Paju-si, South Korea) and Sung Su Han (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transparent touch display device including: first to third touch electrodes disposed in one column; first to third touch lines disposed across the first to the third touch electrodes; mxn touch cathode electrodes disposed in n rows and m columns in an area of each of the first to the third touch electrodes (m and n being natural numbers); and n touch bridges disposed in the area of eac...