ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,376, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display apparatus with sensor-area black patterns on the circuit layer" was invented by Minjung Na (Seoul, South Korea), Jinsung An (Gwacheon-si, South Korea) and Yongjae Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a sensor area surrounded by the display area, a circuit layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixel circuits, a plurality of display pixel electrodes disposed on the circuit layer and overlapping the display area, a plurality of s...