ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,423, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Dae-Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sangwoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyeonsik Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kwang Soo Bae (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a base layer including a light emitting area, a sensing area, and a non-light-emitting area disposed between the light emitting area and the sensing area; a light emitting element disposed in the light emitting area; an optical sensing element disposed in the sensing area; a capping layer disposed on...