ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,599, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display panel and display apparatus including the same" was invented by Saehee Han (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gwuihyun Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Chulwon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a substrate including a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area, an inorganic insulating layer disposed over the substrate and including an opening overlapping the component area, a first organic insulating layer filling the opening of the inorganic insulating layer, and an auxiliary di...