ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,589, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Young-Gil Choi (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Changmo Koo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gwang-Hee Kim (Asan-si, South Korea), Jae-Myong Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Jungkwon Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Byoungduk Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a first area in which a foreign substance is disposed and a second area in which the foreign substance is not disposed. The display device includes a lower panel including a base lay...