ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,596, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Touch display apparatus" was invented by Tian-Jing Jiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yueh-Chi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Chia Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ti-Kuei Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ya-Ling Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch display apparatus includes a display panel, first light-emitting elements and a first conductive layer. The first light-emitting elements are disposed on a first auxiliary display area of the display panel. The first conductive layer is disposed on the display panel and includes first mesh-shaped touch electrodes and first dumm...