ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,873, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display apparatus having metal stack between emission areas and method of providing the same" was invented by Jeongseok Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taewook Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wooyong Sung (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a thin-film transistor on a substrate, a planarization film on the thin-film transistor, a light-emitting element on the planarization film, connected to the thin-film transistor, and including a first electrode, an intermediate layer and a second electrode ...