ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,598, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BARCO N.V. (Kortrijk, Belgium).

"Alignment mechanism and methods for installation of tiled displays" was invented by Karim Meersman (Kortemark, Belgium), Tom Declerck (Meulebeke, Belgium), Bruno Devos (Zulte, Belgium) and Greet Adams (Deerlijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediary support structure that includes a linear or rotational actuator to move the single display tile from a first position in a first plane along a predetermined path to a second position in the first plane. The first position is a loading position of the single display tile in the tiled display and the s...