ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,628, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Sungsu Ham (Paju-si, South Korea), Sungtae Lee (Paju-si, South Korea), Joongsup Han (Paju-si, South Korea) and Uihyeon Jeong (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, and a vibration device on a rear surface of the display panel to vibrate the display panel to generate a sound, the vibration device including a vibration array including a plurality of vibration modules."

The patent was filed on Aug. 17, 2023, under Application No. 1...