ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,866, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display apparatus, mask for manufacturing the same, and manufacturing method of display apparatus" was invented by Eunho Song (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yeseul Na (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Youngmo Koo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate, a first bank including a bank opening exposing a central portion of the pixel electrode, a second bank disposed on an outer side of the first bank and including a greater thickness than the first bank, an...