ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,604, issued on March 25.

"Display panel and display device that include an annular repair circuit" was invented by Chaofan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. According to the display panel, a fracture is provided on each gate signal line, so that the each gate signal line does not transversely extend through a display area. In this way, an abnormal invalid gate circuit area in a range of the display area at a left part below a dashed line formed by connecting the plurality of the fractures does not affect transmission of a gate signal, thereby re...