ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,445, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices with displays having transparent openings and shorted pixels" was invented by Yue Cui (Campbell, Calif.), Ricardo A Peterson (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuchi Che (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shyuan Yang (San Mateo, Calif.), Warren S Rieutort-Louis (Cupertino, Calif.), Tsung-Ting Tsai (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Qiao (San Jose, Calif.), Jean-Pierre S Guillou (La Jolla, Calif.) and Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The display may hav...