ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,443, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Semi-transparent display" was invented by Bernd Richter (Dresden, Germany), Philipp Wartenberg (Dresden, Germany), Stephan Brenner (Dresden, Germany), Volker Kirchhoff (Wehlen, Germany) and Uwe Vogel (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semi-transparent display and a method for producing a semi-transparent display. An SOI wafer is provided, the surface having at least one pixel region and at least one contact region arranged next to the pixel region, the SOI wafer comprising a silicon subst...