ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,687, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Minsoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yoona Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Anna Ryu (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate including a unit area having a quadrangular shape, and a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel that are spaced apart from each other in the unit area and respectively emit lights of different colors. The unit area includes a virtual octagon that has a center area overlapping a center area of the unit area and h...