ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,491, issued on March 4, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display panel and a display apparatus including the same" was invented by Sukyo Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Daesuk Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Ilgoo Youn (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes: a substrate comprising a display area and a corner area, the corner area located outside the display area and having curved sides or polygonal sides; a plurality of pixels in the display area in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction; a driving portion in the corner area...