ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,899, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display panel and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Taehwi Kim (Paju-si, South Korea), Jungchul Kim (Paju-si, South Korea) and Sohyun Kim (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a display panel including: a substrate divided into a first area and a second area positioned outside the first area; a buffer layer disposed in the first area and the second area and disposed on the substrate; a first thin-film transistor including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer disposed in the first area and disposed on the...