ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,802, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display panel with insulating line and connecting line extending from auxiliary pixel circuit to auxiliary display element and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Gwuihyun Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kwangwoo Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Koichi Sugitani (Yongin-si, South Korea), Chulwon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Saehee Han (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Pilsoon Hong (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a substrate including a main display area, a component area, and a periphera...