ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,299, issued on July 15, was assigned to KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co. Ltd. (Kunshan, China).

"Back plate" was invented by Dingcheng Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Shuijun Wang (Jiangsu, China), Weili Li (Jiangsu, China), Botao Fan (Jiangsu, China), Wenxing Li (Jiangsu, China), Fei Sun (Jiangsu, China) and Xiaogang Xin (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A back plate configured to press a mask assembly. The mask assembly includes a glass substrate and a mask that are stacked on the glass substrate. The back plate covers a surface of the glass substrate to press the glass substrate, thereby attaching the glass substrate ...