ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,536, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Bohwa Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Younggil Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minuk Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sungwook Woo (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Nari Ahn (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus including a circuit with improved characteristics and including a thin-film transistor includes a first interlayer insulating layer arranged on a substrate, a first semiconductor layer arranged on the first interlayer insulating layer and including an oxide semiconductor mate...