ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,407, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China) and Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Array substrate and display apparatus" was invented by Da Zhou (Beijing), Jianbo Wang (Beijing), Taoran Zhang (Beijing), Li Huang (Beijing) and Yang Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array substrate includes a planarization layer; an anode material layer on the planarization layer and in a peripheral area of the array substrate; and a plurality of gas releasing vias extending through the anode material layer configured to release gas in the planarization lay...