ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. RE51,033, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to LG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display apparatus with a crack detection line" was invented by Jeong Min Bae (Bucheon-si, South Korea) and JinhWan Kim (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area where a plurality of pixels are provided and a non-display area surrounding the display area, an encapsulation layer including an inorganic layer and an organic layer and covering the display area, a dam disposed in the non-display area to surround the display area and to block a flow of the organic layer, a pad dis...