ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,470, issued on June 30, was assigned to CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Display panel including lens layer and display apparatus" was invented by Yanqiang Wang (Beijing), Huaisen Ren (Beijing), Wei Xia (Beijing), Yuanzheng Guo (Beijing) and Jie Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a display substrate, a lens layer and a dimming layer. The display substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and each sub-pixel has a light-emitting region. The lens layer is disposed on a side of a light-exiting surface of the display substrate...