ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,378, issued on March 24, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus including connecting patterns connecting conductive patters" was invented by Kijune Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Younjoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minjeong Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sungeun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jinho Ju (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jonghyun Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a first conductive line extending in a first direction, and including a plurality of first conductive patterns that are spaced from each other; and a first connect...