ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,631, issued on May 27.

"Displays with camera window openings" was invented by Eric L. Benson (Burlingame, Calif.), Bryan W. Posner (San Mateo, Calif.), Christopher L. Boitnott (Redwood City, Calif.), Dinesh C. Mathew (San Francisco), Jun Qi (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Y. Cao (San Francisco) and Victor H. Yin (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may be formed in the display to accommodate a camera. The camera window may be formed by creating a notch in the thin-film transistor layer that extends inwardly fr...