ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,720, issued on June 2, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Taehyung Kim (Paju-si, South Korea), MinJin Lee (Paju-si, South Korea), YoungYoon You (Paju-si, South Korea) and GyungBo Ha (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus may include a rear cover at a rear surface of a display module and a vibration generating module at a rear region of the rear cover. The vibration generating module may be configured to output sound in a forward direction and a lateral direction of the display module."

The patent was filed on Oct. 10, 2023, under Application ...