ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,990, issued on July 14, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Kyunghoe Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Cheol-Gon 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: a base layer; a circuit layer including: a buffer layer on the base layer; inorganic insulating layers on the buffer layer; organic insulating layers on the inorganic insulating layers; and conductive patterns; an element layer on the circuit layer, and including a sensing element and a light-emitting element in an active region; a data l...