ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,838, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Display panel and driving method for the same, and display device" was invented by Yingteng Zhai (Shanghai) and Yuan Ding (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel, a display device and a method for driving a display panel are provided. The display panel includes N types of display areas which includes an i-th type display area and a j-th type display area. The display panel includes M display parts which include a first display part and a second display part. The first display part includes at least one i-th type display area...