ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,831, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CHENGDU BOE DISPLAY SCI-TECH Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Array substrate and display device" was invented by Chunping Long (Beijing) and Yongda Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array substrate and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, gate lines and a metal layer on the base substrate. The metal layer is located on a side of the gate lines away from the base substrate, and includes data lines, a first connecting portion and a first electrode and a second electrode of a thin film transistor. The first electrode is electrically connected to a p...