ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,326, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Pivotable support apparatus and display apparatus" was invented by Xinyu Wang (Beijing), Yonghong Zhou (Beijing) and Shangchieh Chu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pivotable support apparatus for supporting a foldable display panel is provided. The pivotable support apparatus includes a binge structure; and a joint structure including at least me row of joints, a respective row of joints comprising a plurality of joints connected to each other. A respective joint of the plurality of joints includes an upper portion and a lower po...