ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,818, issued on June 30, was assigned to CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Supporting backplane and display apparatus" was invented by Zuquan Chen (Beijing), Wei Qing (Beijing), Xingguo Liu (Beijing), Shaokui Liu (Beijing), Zhihui Wang (Beijing), Wei Zeng (Beijing), Danping Shen (Beijing), Qiang Tang (Beijing) and Ce Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a supporting backplane and a display apparatus. The supporting backplane is arranged at one side of a flexible display panel, and the supporting backplane at least comprises a main bending...