ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,485, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Display panel and display apparatus" was invented by Hao Zhang (Beijing), Chunyan Xie (Beijing), Hao Liu (Beijing) and Libin Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a primary screen, an auxiliary screen and a connecting region, the primary screen and the auxiliary screen are connected via the connecting region, and the auxiliary screen at least partially surrounds the primary screen. A primary displaying region is disposed inside the primary screen, a plurality of first data lines are disposed within the primary displaying r...