ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,797, issued on June 23, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Duckjung Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hye Jin Gwark (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaeik Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hwi Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jungsun Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yeonhwa Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Joongu Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a base substrate having a plurality of first areas and a second area adjacent to the plurality of first areas; an organic layer on the base substrate and having...