ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,377, issued on March 24, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Bon-Yong Koo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sujin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Danwon Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jaeyong Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provides a display device including: a substrate configured to include a display area including pixels and signal lines, and a peripheral area positioned around the display area; a semiconductor layer on the substrate; a first conductive layer between the semiconductor layer and th...