ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,461, issued on July 29, was assigned to BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Display substrate and display apparatus" was invented by Hao Zhang (Beijing), Pinfan Wang (Beijing) and Fang Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display substrate is provided. The display substrate includes a display substrate, comprising one or more scan circuits and one or more electrostatic discharge protection circuits in a peripheral area. An electrostatic discharge protection circuit is configured to provide a start signal to a scan unit of a scan circuit. The display substrate comprises a plurality of islands and a plurality of bridges ...