ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,744, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to E Ink Corp. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Electrophoretic display layer with thin film top electrode" was invented by Nishit Murari (Billerica, Mass.), Pavel Kamaev (Lexington, Mass.), David Darrell Miller (Wakefield, Mass.), Richard J. Paolini Jr. (Framingham, Mass.) and Jay William Anseth (Canton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making electrophoretic displays layers including various thin films that are deposited directly onto a layer of microcapsules of electrophoretic media. In an embodiment, a thin film of a light-transmissive conductive material is deposited to create a clear ...