ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,495, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China) and BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Display panel and display device" was invented by Fei Fang (Beijing), Ke Liu (Beijing), Ling Shi (Beijing), Xuewei Tian (Beijing), Hui Lu (Beijing), Shuai Xie (Beijing) and Dan Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the display area comprises a first display area and a second display area, the first display area at least partially surrounds the second display area...