ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,140, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Display panel and display apparatus" was invented by Sunhwa Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gyungsoon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaeyong Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yujin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area around the display area, the display area including a front display area, a corner display area extending from a corner of the front display area, and a middle display area between the front display area and the corner displa...