ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,766, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).

"Display" was invented by Masami Inokuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display technique capable of displaying special images. A display includes an image display layer and a mask layer. The image display layer includes one or more colored portions, and displays a transmitted light image corresponding to the one or more colored portions when illuminated with white light. The mask layer includes a transparent material layer having a first major surface and a second major surface, and the first major surface includes one or more regions each composed of first and s...