ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,627, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Hanil Kim (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate divided into an active area and a non-active area including a gate-in-panel (GIP) area, a planarization layer disposed over the substrate and extending to the non-active area, a bank disposed over the planarization layer and extending to the non-active area, an encapsulation layer disposed over the bank and a hydrogen absorption layer disposed between the bank and the pl...