ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,501, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Nuree Um (Yongin-si, South Korea), Mihae Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minjeong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyungjun Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Junyong An (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a first pixel circuit on the substrate and including a first driving thin-film transistor and a first storage capacitor electrically connected to the first driving thin-film transistor; a second pixel circuit adjacent to the first pixel circuit and including a seco...