ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,381, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device having a bent portion" was invented by Sunhee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sunho Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gunhee Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Donghwan Shim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taehoon Yang (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Choelmin Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display area and a peripheral area. A display layer includes a plurality of display elements arranged thereon. A thin-film encapsulation layer is arranged on the display layer and includes first, second, and ...