US Patent Issued to Samsung Display on April 14 for "Display apparatus having protruding conductive layer and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,615, issued on April 14, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus having protruding conductive layer and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Wooyong Sung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taewook Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jeongseok Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area extending around a periphery of the display area; a pixel electrode in the display area; a pixel-defining layer on the pixel electrode and having a first sub-opening exposing a central portion of the pixe...