ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,597, issued on March 11, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Display device and display unit" was invented by Sebastian Wittmann (Regenstauf, Germany) and Thomas Schwarz (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device with a connection carrier and a plurality of pixels, which are drivable via row lines and column lines, is specified. The row lines and the column lines are arranged on the connection carrier. At least one row line is interrupted at an imaginary crossing point with a column line on the connection carrier. A bridging component is arranged on the connection carrier,...