ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,656, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus with overlapping contact holes for conductive layer in non-display area" was invented by Seunghwan Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kinyeng Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taewoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taehyun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taehoon Yang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Cheolgon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jonghyun Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels on a substrate and each including a first electrode, an intermediate layer, and a seco...