ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,602, issued on March 25, was assigned to TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Display panel substrate defining hole for input image device and liquid crystal display having the same" was invented by Tae Hee Lee (Asan-si, South Korea), Hyoung Joon Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Hyo Jin Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Kap Soo Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Uk Heo (Asan-si, South Korea) and Ji Yun Hong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including: a display area including a plurality of pixels on the first substrate, a non-display area wh...