ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,585, issued on July 7, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device including reinforcement and barrier layers" was invented by Jihye Han (Yongin-si, South Korea), Eunjin Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Chulmin Bae (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a substrate; a reinforcement layer on the substrate; and a display layer including a barrier layer on the reinforcement layer, wherein a number of hydrogen atoms of the reinforcement layer per unit volume is less than a number of hydrogen atoms of the barrier layer per unit volume."

The patent was filed...