ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,484, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Hyuneok Shin (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Juhyun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Joonyong Park (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a substrate including a unit light emitting region; a transparent layer disposed on the substrate; and a light blocking pattern defined by a light blocking material filled in a groove defined through the transparent layer, where the light blocking pattern includes a first light blocking pattern overlapping the unit light emitting regio...