ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,636, issued on July 28, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Array substrate for display apparatus and method of manufacturing display apparatus" was invented by Jongseon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wonkyu Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an array substrate for a display apparatus, the array substrate includes: a mother substrate; a base substrate on the mother substrate and comprising a display cell and a peripheral area surrounding the display cell, the display cell comprising a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a ground pad at an edg...