ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,974, issued on July 1, was assigned to HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Kuibao Li (Qingdao, China), Jianchun Li (Qingdao, China) and Xu Cheng (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; a backlight module, which includes a backlight board and an optical film component, where the backlight board includes a backlight board body and a light source, an edge of the display panel is connected to an edge of the backlight board body, so as to form a gas layer between the display pane...