ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,627, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display panel and display apparatus" was invented by Kyunghoe Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jisun Kim (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: "The invention provides a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a main display area and a corner area. The corner area includes: a middle area adjacent to a first display area; and a plurality of extension areas extending from the middle area in a direction away from the middle ar...