ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,631, issued on July 28, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Dongyeon Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kihyun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Younggil Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a thin film transistor including a semiconductor pattern including an oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode overlapping the semiconductor pattern, a first interlayer insulating layer on the semiconductor pattern and the gate electrode, and a connection electrode on the first interlayer insulating...