ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,502, issued on Sept. 2.

"Pixel layouts for electronic device displays" was invented by Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Yuechen Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaokai Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Cheng-Ho Yu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Zhibing Ge (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Increasing resolution of liquid crystal displays may result in small distances between adjacent liquid crystal display pixels. This tight pixel spacing may reduce transmission through the liquid crystal display pixels and may result in cross-talk between the liquid crystal display pixels. To increase transmission and, correspondingly, display effi...