ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,387, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Manufacturing Resources International Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Display assemblies with support structures for electronic display layers" was invented by William Dunn (Alpharetta, Ga.), Mike Brown (Cumming, Ga.) and Alex Moreau (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display assemblies are disclosed which include a cover layer, an electronic display layer located behind the cover layer, an illumination device located rearward of, and spaced apart from, the electronic display layer, and support structures extending from a forward surface of the illumination device towards a rear surface o...