ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,840, issued on July 14, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Junhyun Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyeongseok Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Heejean Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sunhwa Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Mukyung Jeon (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: an active layer on a substrate; a first switching transistor including a part of the active layer; a second switching transistor including a part of the active layer and in a same plane as at least a part of the first switching transistor in a first direction in ...