ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,388, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Splicing display apparatus" was invented by Li Wei Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung Chuan Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Chuan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shau-Yu Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a splicing display apparatus including display panels. Each of the display panels includes a circuit substrate and pixel units. The display panels include a first display panel and a second display panel arranged in a first direction and spliced to each other. The first display panel and the second display panel have a splicing seam. A pixel u...