ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,874, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus including a low brightness area" was invented by Junghoon Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hochul Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a substrate; and a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) elements disposed on the substrate in a matrix form, wherein the plurality of LED elements includes: a first LED element including a first light emitting layer, a second LED element including a second light emitting layer, and a third LED element...