ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,457, issued on July 22, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display panel and display apparatus including the display panel" was invented by Yongje Jeon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Chunseok Ko (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kihong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sangkyung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaeyoung Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sungwoo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kyeongsik Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes: a substrate including a first display area and a second display area including a transmission area; a plurality of first display elements arr...