ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,718, issued on March 3, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device having alignment electrodes and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Hoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Won Tae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Se Hyun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chang Hyeok Choi (Asan-si, South Korea) and Yong Sik Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device comprises a substrate, a via layer disposed on the substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the via layer and spaced apart from each other, a third electrode that overlaps a region between the ...