ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,727, issued on May 26, was assigned to TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Display panel" was invented by Jun Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Bin Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Peng Du (Shenzhen, China), Chungching Hsieh (Shenzhen, China), Hongyuan Xu (Shenzhen, China), Jing Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Saiping Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel is provided. In a plan view of the display panel, the black matrix layer covers the first connection portion and the second connection portion, and the second common electrode and the pixel portion are in an area of the opening, where an angle...