ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. RE50,396, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displays with silicon and semiconducting-oxide top-gate thin-film transistors" was invented by Shinya Ono (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chin-Wei Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Ching-Sang Chuang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jiun-Jye Chang (Cupertino, Calif.), Keisuke Omoto (Kitanagoya, Japan), Shang-Chih Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), Ting-Kuo Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Takahide Ishii (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixel...