ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,478, issued on May 12, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Jin Woo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Zu Seok Oh (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Jeong Hyun Lee (Asan-si, South Korea) and Kyung Ah Choi (Asan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, an insulating layer above the substrate, and in the display area and the non-display area, and at least one dam in the non-display area, surrounding the display area, and including a lower dam layer above the substra...