ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,874, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Display panel and display device" was invented by Jisun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kyunghoe Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Youngwan Seo (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Keunhee Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a substrate including a main display area, a round display area disposed at a corner portion of the main display area, and a middle display area between the main display area and the round display area, a round display element area arranged in the round display area and including round ...