ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,841, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Wangwoo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sungho Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seokje Seong (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jinsung An (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minwoo Woo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seunghyun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jiseon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yoonjong Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a main display area and an auxiliary display area, the auxiliary display area including a component area and a middle area...