ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,063, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electro-optical device and electronic equipment" was invented by Kaoru Inoue (Tokyo), Hiromichi Tanaka (Tokyo) and Takeshi Kaneki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device which is an electro-optical device includes a panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer and having a display region, a transparent region provided inside the display region, and a frame region provided between the transparent region and the display region. A backlight unit is provided below the panel so as not to overlap with the transparent r...