ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,018, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Optical detection apparatus for detecting display panel and method for detecting display panel" was invented by Chenyang Zhang (Beijing), Fuqiang Li (Beijing), Meili Wang (Beijing), Lei Wang (Beijing), Xuan Feng (Beijing), Xuan Liang (Beijing), Fei Wang (Beijing) and Xinxin Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical detection apparatus and method for detecting a display panel is provided. The apparatus includes photosensitive units arranged in an array. A minimum distance between adjacent photosensitive units is less than a sub-...