ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,939, issued on July 14, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus including a bending protection layer over a connection wire" was invented by Jeongseok Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ohjune Kwon (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 substrate including a first area, a second area, and a bending area between the first area and the second area, a plurality of display devices arranged in the first area, a thin film encapsulation layer covering the plurality of display devices and including a first inorgan...