ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,574, issued on July 28, was assigned to OLEDWorks LLC (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Display with light amplification" was invented by John Hamer (Rochester, N.Y.), Jon-Paul S. Desormeaux (Rochester, N.Y.), Noel C. Giebink (State College, Pa.) and Raju Lampande (University Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated OLED display, preferably a microdisplay, comprising a base display that emits a pixelated image and an overlying stacked OLED amplification structure where the OLED amplification structure has at least two light-emitting OLED units separated by a charge-generation layer and a photodiode layer which generates a photocurren...