ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,582, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Perovskite displays and methods of formation" was invented by Lih-Yuan Lin (Seattle), Chen Zou (Seattle) and Ethan G. Keeler (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forming a barrier layer on a substrate, removing a portion of the barrier layer to yield a patterned barrier layer and an exposed portion of the substrate within a hole in the patterned barrier layer, forming a first portion of a perovskite on the patterned barrier layer and a second portion of the perovskite on the exposed portion of the substrate, and removing the patterned ba...