ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,471, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display panel and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Yujin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sunhwa Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Heejean Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jaeyong Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a substrate including a corner display area including a strip portion between cut portions; and corner pixels in the strip portion and corner pixel circuits which drives the corner pixels, wherein each of the corner pixels includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-p...