ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,745, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Sichuan, China) and Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Support module, display module and display device" was invented by Chuankun You (Beijing), Zhihui Wang (Beijing), Jun Zhang (Beijing), Fengping Wu (Beijing), Shaokui Liu (Beijing), Chuan Zeng (Beijing) and Jia Zeng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The supporting module includes a supporting assembly including a fixed plate and a movable plate, and both sides of fixed plate are hinged with one movable plate; a synchronous assembly is fixed on the fixed plate, transm...