ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,352, issued on June 17, was assigned to Au Optronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Display apparatus" was invented by Po-Jen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tai-Tso Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen-Yuan Tu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia Wen Dai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a driving backplane and a light-emitting element. The driving backplane includes a substrate, a pixel driving circuit disposed on the substrate and a pad electrically connected to the pixel driving circuit. The pad has a first metal layer, a first intermetallic layer and a first diffusion barrier layer, wherein the first metal layer, the ...