ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,933, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Seung-Hwan Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jong-Hyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Ju-Chan Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus including a display area for displaying an image and a peripheral area that is a non-display area includes a base substrate, a first data line disposed in the display area on the base substrate, a first connecting line at least partially disposed in the display area on the base substrate and electrically connected to the first data line through a ...