ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,507, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Emissive display configured for through-display imaging based on collimator structure" was invented by Sangmoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jyothi Karri (San Jose, Calif.) and Ion Bita (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a transmit/receive area (120,122) of a display. The transmit/receive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the...