ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,444, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China) and Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Display panel and display device" was invented by Tinghua Shang (Beijing), Fan He (Beijing) and Hongwei Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a display area including at least one through hole and an annular non-display area between the through hole and the display area enclosing the through hole. The annular non-display area includes: at least two annular blocking dams, a through-hole crack detecting line, and a connecting portion. The annul...