ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,938, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Dukjin Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ajeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunghee Wi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngmin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: light sources and board bars on which the light sources are mounted, the board bars spaced apart from each other along a first direction, wherein each of the board bars comprises: a central extending portion extending in a second direction; first protrusions protruding from one side of the central ext...