ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,609, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display apparatus having a light-blocking pattern" was invented by Sung Eun Yoon (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a light-blocking pattern on a pixel area of a device substrate; an upper buffer layer on the light-blocking pattern extending on a bending area of the device substrate; a switching thin film transistor on the upper buffer layer including a first semiconductor pattern spaced away from the light-blocking pattern; a separation insulating layer on the first semiconductor pattern extending on th...