ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,916, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Flexible support plate and display apparatus" was invented by Xinqi Lin (Beijing), Yanli Wang (Beijing), Yangyang Cai (Beijing), Jiaxiang Wang (Beijing), Wei Gong (Beijing) and Hong Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a flexible support plate including a first support plate. The first support plate is provided with a first flat region and a roll-slide region that are connected to each other. The first support plate includes a wholly-plate-shaped structure disposed...