ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,531, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BEIJING BOE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Texture recognition device and display apparatus" was invented by Jie Zhang (Beijing), Shoujin Cai (Beijing), Jin Cheng (Beijing), Dexi Kong (Beijing), Cheng Li (Beijing) and Yingzi Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A texture recognition device and a display apparatus are provided, the texture recognition device has a plurality of pixel units, and includes a base substrate, a driving circuit layer, a first electrode layer and a photosensitive element layer; at least one of the plurality of pi...