ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,357, issued on June 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Alignment-free micro-display architecture" was invented by Wei Sin Tan (Plymouth, Great Britain), Andrea Pinos (Plymouth, Great Britain), Samir Mezouari (Swindon, Great Britain) and John Lyle Whiteman (St. Austell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a light source for a display system and methods of fabricating the light source. The light source includes a backplane wafer including a first bonding layer that includes an array of pixel contact pads in a first dielectric layer; a second bonding layer including a...