ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,478, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China) and WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS Co. LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH (Shanghai).

"Display panel and display device" was invented by Qingxia Wang (Shanghai), Ruiqi Huang (Shanghai), Peng Zhang (Shanghai), Yaolin Wang (Shanghai), Xi Chen (Shanghai) and Shanshan Cong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel is divided into an active area and a non-active area. The non-active area is divided into a first area, a flexible area and a second area sequentially arranged towards the active area....