ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,865, issued on April 7, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Display device including electrically connected pad electrodes and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jaehyun Lee (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Seul-Ki Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Kap Soo Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Ki Su Jin (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Seung-Ha Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jongbum Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a pixel, a first pad electrode disposed around the pixel, a buffer layer disposed on the first pad electrode, a first insulating layer disposed o...