ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,185, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display panel and method of testing the same" was invented by Won-Kyu Kwak (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hwan-Soo Jang (Asan-si, South Korea) and Seung-Kyu Lee (Asan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes: a display including pixel columns electrically connected to data lines; a non-display area adjacent the display; a test circuit configured to receive a lighting test signal passing through at least a portion of the non-display area and to transfer the lighting test signal to the data lines in response to a te...