ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,206, issued on May 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Metal plate design for electronic display panels" was invented by Yi Tao (San Jose, Calif.) and Qi Qi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling a display panel includes laminating a back plate to a display layer to form an untrimmed display panel, the back plate including a metal layer that includes a trimming path defined by one or more line segments having reduced metal content compared to other portions of the metal layer. The method further includes trimming the untrimmed display panel along the one or more line segments to de...