ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,370, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display apparatus including corner display area" was invented by Hosik Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sangwoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Gyehwan Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a central area arranged at a center of a substrate, and a corner area arranged at a corner of the central area. The corner area includes a central corner area including a plurality of extension areas extending in a direction away from the central area and a first adjacent corner area and a second adjacent c...