ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,575, issued on July 7, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Junhyuk Woo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minhee Son (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yong Seok Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Saet Byeol Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device is disclosed that includes a substrate including light emitting areas and a peripheral area surrounding the light emitting areas, a light emitting element layer disposed on the substrate and overlapping the light emitting areas, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting element layer and a first patt...