ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,978, issued on April 29, was assigned to Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China) and BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Display substrate having barrier layers in peripheral area, and display apparatus" was invented by Lu Bai (Beijing), Yang Zhou (Beijing), Xin Zhang (Beijing), Junxiu Dai (Beijing), Yi Zhang (Beijing), Tinghua Shang (Beijing), Bo Zhang (Beijing), Yao Huang (Beijing) and Song Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display substrate includes at least two barrier layers in a peripheral area of the display substrate. The at least two barrier layers includes a first barrier layer form...