ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,119, issued on May 26.
"Electronic device display with extended active area" was invented by Mikael M. Silvanto (San Francisco), Dinesh C. Mathew (San Francisco) and Victor H. Yin (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be formed from liquid crystal display pixels, organic light-emitting diode pixels, or other pixels. The display may have an active area that is bordered along at least one edge by an inactive area. The active area contains pixels and displays images. The inactive area does not contain any pixels and does not display images. The inactive area...