ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,418, issued on May 27.

"Display panel redundancy schemes" was invented by Kapil V. Sakariya (Los Altos, Calif.), Tore Nauta (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Hopil Bae (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Henry C. Jen (Los Altos, Calif.), James E. Pedder (Cupertino, Calif.), Sunggu Kang (San Jose, Calif.), Shingo Hatanaka (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Lu (Campbell, Calif.), Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hasan Akyol (Mountain View, Calif.), Saif Choudhary (San Jose, Calif.) and Ion Bita (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel inclu...