ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,857, issued on May 27, was assigned to Innolux Corp. (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

"Electronic device comprising an electrostatic discharge protective unit" was invented by Jia-Yuan Chen (Miao-Li County, Taiwan), Tsung-Han Tsai (Miao-Li County, Taiwan) and Kuan-Feng Lee (Miao-Li County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes an object substrate, an electronic unit and an electrostatic discharge protective unit. The object substrate includes a bonding pad. The electronic unit includes an electrode bonding on the bonding pad. The electrostatic discharge protective unit is located in the object substrate and elec...