ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,341, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device including position input system with pattern protection layer" was invented by Jun Yeong Seol (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sung Guk An (Yongin-si, South Korea), Da Som Gu (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ki Jun Roh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hee Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and So Yeon Han (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display unit, a touch sensing unit disposed on a front surface of the display unit, a code placement unit including a plurality of code patterns and a pattern prot...