ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,583, issued on April 14, was assigned to Plessey Semiconductors Ltd (Plymouth Devon, Great Britain).

"Hybrid microdisplay" was invented by Samir Mezouari (Plymouth, Great Britain), Andrea Pinos (Plymouth, Great Britain) and WeiSin Tan (Plymouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a display comprising: bonding a backplane comprising a plurality of backplane electrical contacts to a monolithic light emitting diode structure comprising a corresponding plurality of electrical contacts, wherein bonding comprises forming a reversible bond between at least one of the plurality of backplane electrical contacts ...