ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,747, issued on March 18, was assigned to Coretronic Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Viewing angle control module and display apparatus" was invented by Chung-Yang Fang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Wen-Chun Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Bo-Han Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a viewing angle control module including a first liquid crystal panel, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and a phase retarder. The first liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first alignment layer, a second alignment layer, a first liquid crystal layer, a first electrode layer, and a second elec...