ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,308, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus including dummy pixels in a non-display area" was invented by Mihae Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kyeonghwa Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Junyong An (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kyonghwan Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Chaehan Hyun (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a substrate including: a first region; a second region; a first non-display area surrounding the first region and the second region; and a display area surrounding at least a portion of an outline of the first non-di...