ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,493, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Inorganic layer structure in bending area of display device and method of providing the same" was invented by Youhan Moon (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Deokhoi Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Swae-Hyun Kim (Asan-si, South Korea), Jeongho Lee (Asan-si, South Korea) and Jung-Woo Ha (Asan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing an active pattern and gate metal patterns, and inorganic insulation layers respectively therebetween in a pixel area and each extending to a bending area, providing a first photoresist pat...