ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,684, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to WISTRON Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Self-sterilizing display device" was invented by Yi-Hau Shiau (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Cheng (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Kai-Wei Yang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), An-Ching Yen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Hsien-Jung Chiou (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-sterilizing display device is applied to self-sterilizing with a UV light. The self-sterilizing display device includes a display, a light-incident layer, a light source, and a transparent protective layer. The light-incident layer is disposed above the display. The ...