ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,940, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Byeong Hee Won (Incheon, South Korea), Seong Won Kim (Asan-si, South Korea) and In Seon Yoon (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display area, and a dummy area disposed on one side of the display area, where each of the display area and the dummy area includes a first island pattern and a second island pattern disposed to be spaced apart from each other, and a connection pattern connecting the first island pattern and the second island pattern to each other, and t...