ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,578, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China) and BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Drive backplane, display panel, and display apparatus" was invented by Zhenli Zhou (Beijing), Fengli Ji (Beijing), Quan Shi (Beijing), Yanwei Lu (Beijing) and Zhuoran Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The drive backplane includes a pixel area and a control area outside the pixel area. The control area includes a circuit area and a bus area between the circuit area and the pixel area. The drive backplane includes a substrate and a circuit layer provided on a side o...