ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,706, issued on April 21, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display panel and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Sunghwan Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Wonkyu Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Junghoon Shim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes: a main display area; a component area including a transmission area; a peripheral area outside the main display area; a substrate; main display elements on the substrate to correspond to the main display area; main pixel circuits respectively connected to the main display elements; auxiliary display...