ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,170, issued on July 14, was assigned to WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China) and WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Display panel and mobile terminal with crack-mitigating encapsulation structure" was invented by Xingyong Zhang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel and a mobile terminal are provided. The display panel includes a substrate and multiple barrier units spaced apart from each other in a peripheral area, openings defined between adjacent barrier units, and a first array encapsulation unit and a second array encaps...