ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,825, issued on March 17, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Conductive oxide overhang structures for OLED devices" was invented by Ji-young Choung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chung-Chia Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu Hsin Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan), Jungmin Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dieter Haas (San Jose, Calif.) and Si Kyoung Kim (Gwangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sub-pixel circuits and methods of forming sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display are described herein. The overhang structures are permanent to the sub-pixel circuit. The overhang s...