ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,647, issued on July 28, was assigned to TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Display panel and display apparatus" was invented by Sheng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel structures, each of the pixel structures is disposed in a hexagon, the hexagon is divided into six triangles disposed around a center of the hexagon, one pixel structure includes six closely arranged pixel units, one pixel unit is correspondingly disposed in one triangle; in one pixel unit and one corresponding tr...