ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,390, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device including alternating pixels and optical sensors" was invented by Il Nam Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seung Hyun Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong Wook Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyun Dae Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kang Bin Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Go Eun Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hee Chul Hwang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate having an active region and a first non-active region positioned around the active region. A plurality of pixels is dis...