ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,941, issued on May 27, was assigned to CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Sichuan, China) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Liquid crystal light-control panel and display device" was invented by Yadong Zhang (Beijing), Bo Wu (Beijing), Ting Li (Beijing), Biqi Li (Beijing), Jing Han (Beijing), Haohao Li (Beijing), Changyi Wang (Beijing) and Zhengdong Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal light-control panel includes a first array substrate and a cover plate opposite to each other, and a plurality of support pillars disposed between the first array substrate and the cover plate. The fi...