ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. RE50,901, issued on May 26, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information display apparatus" was invented by Koji Hirata (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiko Yatsu (Kyoto, Japan), Toshinori Sugiyama (Kyoto, Japan), Akio Misawa (Kyoto, Japan), Shigeki Hoshino (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuomi Kaneko (Kyoto, Japan), Tatsuya Nakazawa (Kyoto, Japan), Takumi Nakada (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Nagano (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoki Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information display apparatus that significantly improves light resistance with respect to sunlight. The information display apparatus, which displays video-image information...