ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,817, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Moosoon Ko (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kohei Ebisuno (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sanghoon Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jaesoo Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a substrate, a semiconductor layer arranged on the substrate and including a plurality of protrusions protruding in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, a gate insulating layer arranged on the semiconductor layer, a first gate layer arranged on the gate insulating layer and including a fir...